Simon Mawer's Tightrope wins the 2016 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

Congratualtions to Simon Mawer on winning the 2016 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel Tightrope. 

Tightrope follows Marian Sutro, who has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary London trying to pick up the pieces of her post-War life. It is Simon’s tenth novel; his seventh,The Glass Room, was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2010.   

Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tightrope-Simon-Mawer/dp/1408706210

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