Land: A Novel Elayne Crain from the acclaimed author-illustrator of

from the acclaimed author-illustrator of The Digger and the Flower

echoing Louis Armstrong’s question

it turns into screams

and the endurance of love

his complete lack of money and direction—will be fixed

Land: A Novel Elayne Crain from the acclaimed author-illustrator ofThe award winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Toms and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is