Stephen Sexton: If All The World And Love Were Young [2019] paperback BIOGR Extraordinary stories about what it

Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War

And the future of the galaxy will finally be decided

She's on a mission to have the adventure of a lifetime

I couldn't stop reading till I found out how it would end

The novel shifts between Marina's experiences at the Hermitage during the siege of Leningrad and her current existence as a very old lady in America whose mind has begun to fray

Stephen Sexton: If All The World And Love Were Young [2019] paperback BIOGR Extraordinary stories about what itWinner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection Winner of the E. M. Forster Award Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize A Sunday Times, New Statesman and Telegraph Book of the Year 2019 'Every poem in this book is a marvel. Taken all together they make up a work of almost miraculous depth and beauty' Sally Rooney 'A poetry debut fit to compare with