Stephen Sexton: If All The World And Love Were Young [2019] paperback BIOGR and Robert Jordan

and Robert Jordan

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

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

First published in 1977

Stephen Sexton: If All The World And Love Were Young [2019] paperback BIOGR and Robert JordanWinner 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