Held

Held is a novel like no other,by a writer at the height of her powers, affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom, and compassion. It dances with words, time, and ideas in a way that seems to reinvent everything I know about the novel.
The novel "Held" is a 2023 Booker Prize nominee and a Guardian Book of the Autumn 2023. It is a soaring and luminous story of chance and change, following a man named John through four generations and his struggle to understand the messages of ghosts in his pictures. The novel is praised for its scale, beauty, weave, and thinking, reinventing the novel genre.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 09 November 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Michael's writing continues to stand head and shoulders above most other fiction, with the Guardian calling it "a soaring and luminous story of chance and change." Margaret Atwood praised Michaels for her openness to beauty, and the Observer described her writing as "luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace." Michaels' novel "Held" is a triumph, winning the Orange Prize and being chosen as a book of the year by independent.co.uk. Set in the aftermath of World War I, the novel follows the life of John, a soldier who returns from war to North Yorkshire and reopens his photography business. However, the past continues to haunt him, with ghosts appearing in his pictures. The novel spans four generations, with moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. Held is a novel like no other, affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom, and compassion. The author's scale, beauty, weave, and thinking of the book are breathtaking, and it dances with words, time, and emotion.

Weight: 352g
Dimension: 244 x 315 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526659118