Father Alberto and the Flying Girl'Dark and strange and wonderful' MARK HADDON, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time 'Hilarious, moving, and delightfully weird' JO HARKIN, author of The Pretender A bold, vivid and fiercely imaginative historical novel with an unforgettable narrator, exploring intolerance, kindness and what 'madness' really means. In a remote medieval parish, under the rule of a ruthless Abbess, hapless new priest Alberto is charged with guarding

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Set in the English Civil War

the East India Company's native soldiers rise up against their British officers

Disturbingly

but as an illegal immigrant to the city

living with uncertainty

a knight and George Villiers

Two deaths

striving to achieve fulfilment far beyond the world he knows

the only thing they share is the moment of their death

The same kind of killing machine that wiped out my entire squad

A local palm oil plantation owner and his worker are excavating a well