Ancestry
This book defies categorisation. It's a history, it's a novel, almost it's a kind of archaeology, an investigation into the reality of the past and an exploration of that uncertain borderland which lies between fact and fiction. Using archive material Mawer has picked through the traces left behind by his mid-nineteenth-century ancestors.
- Publisher
- Other Press
- ISBN-13
- 9781635423198
- Genre
- Topics
- Family history and ancestryBlending fact and fiction19th century life
Awards
- Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionShortlisted(2023)
Other awarded books from Simon Mawer
- Tightrope (2015)1 win · 8 score
- The Glass Room (2009)0 wins · 7 score
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