Author(s): Rupert Thomson

World fiction

A remarkable genre-defying novel: a vision, a fable, a love story, a ghost story...

And then the night when my life began...A strange beginning. Soldiers, bright lights. The cold. And me being lifted, as if by surgeons, into a new world...

It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, an eight year old boy is removed from his home in the middle of the night. He soon learns that he is the victim of an extraordinary political experiment.

A vision, a fable, a satire, a love story, a ghost story, Divided Kingdom is a remarkable, genre-defying novel and it confirms Rupert Thomson as that rare thing - a writer of sublime prose who also has a mesmerising tale to tell.