The Other Half of Augusta Hope

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Shortlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award

A therapeutic dose of high-strength emotion GUARDIAN
Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in.

At six, shes memorising the dictionary. At seven, shes correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi.

And now that she's an adult, Augusta has no interest in the goings-on of the small town where she lives with her parents and her beloved twin sister, Julia.

When an unspeakable tragedy upends everything in Augusta's life, she's propelled headfirst into the unknown. She's determined to find where she belongs but what if her true home, and heart, are half a world away

Its going to be all over every book club in Britain before you can say Burundi THE TIMES

Full of the reality of hope and despair in everyones lives MIRANDA HART

This gem of a novel entertains and moves in equal measure DAILY MAIL

Keep the tissues close GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

An irresistible message of redemption and belonging RED magazine

Heartening and hopeful JESS KIDD, author of Things in Jars

Mesmerizingly beautiful SARAH HAYWOOD, author of The Cactus

An extraordinary masterpiece ANSTEY HARRIS, author of The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton

Gutsy, endearing and entertaining DEBORAH ORR

Absolutely brilliant GAVIN EXTENCE, author of The Universe Versus Alex Wood

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A joythe humour and pathos in their stories lends real heart and soul OBSERVER

A moving tale sure to make you cry Parfait [is] a convincingly serious, sweet, clever and funny person who ends up carrying the story an epic hero Its going to be all over every book club in Britain before you can say Burundi The Times

I found it both a mesmerisingly beautiful portrait of a young woman discovering what home means to her, and a poignant depiction of how our actions can touch other people's lives in ways we could never have anticipated. Augusta and Parfait are wonderful characters; I was willing them on to find the happiness and peace they both deserved Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus

Joanna Glen weaves a uniquely heartening and hopeful story. A story about pain, the solace of words and our search to belong, to a place, to a person. Welcome to the world of the wonderful Augusta Hope Jess Kidd, author Himself and Things in Jars

Without a doubt one of the best books I have ever read an extraordinary masterpieceAnstey Harris, author ofThe Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton

Absolutely brilliant quirky, original, funny, moving and wonderfully written. Basically, its everything I love in a novel; Gavin Extence, author of The Universe Versus Alex Woods

The most gutsy, endearing and entertaining meditation on the meaning of human existence that you're ever likely to read Deborah Orr

Author Bio

Joanna Glen read Spanish at the University of London, with a stint at the Faculty of Arts at Cordoba University in the south of Spain. She went on to teach Spanish and English to all ages, and, latterly, was a School Principal in London. She has edited a variety of non-fiction books, is a visiting lecturer, a communications coach and an adviser and trainer for schools. Joanna's short fiction has appeared in the Bath Flash Fiction Anthology. She lives with her husband and children on the River Thames in Battersea, returning to Andalusia whenever it gets too grey.