The kingdoms

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN</b>
<b>LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION</b> <b>ASSOCIATION 2021 BEST NOVEL</b>
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For fans of Matt Haig, Stuart Turton and Bridget Collins comes ...

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN</b>
<b>LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION</b> <b>ASSOCIATION 2021 BEST NOVEL</b>
<b>
For fans of Matt Haig, Stuart Turton and Bridget Collins comes a sweeping historical adventure from the <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Watchmaker of Filigree Street</i></b>
<b>'Original, joyous and horrifying, <i>The Kingdoms</i> is an awe-inspiring feat of imagination and passion which had me in tears by the end' - Catriona Ward</b>
<i>Come home, if you remember</i>
The postcard has been held at the sorting office for ninety-one years, waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier. On the front is a lighthouse - Eilean Mor, in the Outer Hebrides.
Joe has never left England, never even left London. He is a British slave, one of thousands throughout the French Empire. He has a job, a wife, a baby daughter.
But he also has flashes of a life he cannot remember and of a world that never existed - a world where English is spoken in England, and not French.
And now he has a postcard of a lighthouse built just six months ago, that was first written nearly one hundred years ago, by a stranger who seems to know him very well.
<b>Joe's journey to unravel the truth will take him from French-occupied London to a remote Scottish island, and back through time itself as he battles for his life - and for a very different future.</b></p>