The Sunday Times (London) 2020 Novel of the Year Luminous...a writer to watch--and to savor. --Oprah Daily From the award-winning author of West and The Redemption of Galen Pike, a sublime (The Toronto Star) and propulsive novel that follows an Englishman seeking refuge in a remote hill town in India who gets caught in the crossfire of local tensions. In this jewel of a novel (The Observer), Hilary Byrd flees his demons and the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in England for a former British hill station in south India. Charmed by the foreignness of his new surroundings and by the familiarity of everything the British have left behind, he finds solace in lifes simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where, after a chance meeting, the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla take Hilary under their wing. The Padre is concerned for Priscillas future, and as Hilarys friendship with the young woman grows, he begins to wonder whether his purpose lies in this new relationship. But religious tensions are brewing and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems. A skillful drama of well-meant misunderstandings and cultural divisions (The Wall Street Journal), The Mission House boldly and imaginatively explores postcolonial ideas in a world fractured between faith and nonbelief, young and old, imperial past and nationalistic present. Tenderly subversive and meticulously crafted, it is a deeply human story of the wonders and terrors of connection in a modern world.Carys Daviess debut novel West was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, runner-up for the Society of Authors McKitterick Prize, and winner of the Wales Book of the Year for Fiction. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, Some New Ambush and The Redemption of Galen Pike, which won the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Her other awards include the Royal Society of Literatures V.S. Pritchett Prize, the Society of Authors Olive Cook Short Story Award, a Northern Writers Award, and a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Born in Wales, she lived and worked for twelve years in New York and Chicago, and now lives in Edinburgh. The Mission House is her most recent novel.Book specifications:Dimensions: 198 x 132Author: Carys DaviesCover type: PaperbackPublishing Year: 2022Publishing Month: 4Pages: 272Language: EnglishPublisher: Scribner Book CompanyWeight: 227 g