Amy & Lan: A Novel

The author of the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests returns with a captivating coming of age story told by Amy & Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families' attempt at the pastoral dream on a farm, deep in the English countryside.

"The very first thing I remember is standing on the water-butt in the garden, with my Mum holding me to stop me falling, singing 'I'm On Top of the World' , and the smell of the new wood in the hot sun. And something do with Mum's silver necklace. Amy doesn't remember any of that. Her very first memory is our wolfhound Ivan knocking her over in a puddle. Or it might be eating a boiled egg, and looking at the daisies on her kitchen tablecloth."

Amy Connell & Lan Honey are having the best childhood ever. They live on a 78-acre farm in the South West of England, with sisters and brothers, other kids, chickens, goats, three dogs, & even a calf,...

SADIE JONES is the author of six novels: The Outcast, winner of the Costa First Novel Award & a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction & the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; Small Wars; the bestselling The Uninvited Guests, which Ann Patchett described as a “brilliant novel”; Fallout; The Snakes, which Sarah Lyall in the New York Times Book Review called “provocative & propulsive . . . and beautifully written”; and, most recently, Amy & Lan. She lives in London.