Ancestry – Simon Mawer Koop Vandaag

The beautiful novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Glass Room and The Girl Who Fell from the Sky.
Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea … Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, imagines a new life in the big city … George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Food, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist …