A debut novel of intense power that was the subject of a 6-way global publisher auction. Iceland 1829: Agnes Magnusdottir is convicted of murdering 2 men, and sent to wait out the period before her execution on the farm of the district officer. As the year progresses, and rural hardship forces everyone to work together, the family's attitudes to Agnes begin to change, until one winter's night when her whispered confessions make them realise all is not as they assumed. A compelling novel set in Iceland's formidable landscape about the truths we claim to know and the ways in which we interpret what we're told.