The Colony

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'A canny, challenging, and never less than engrossing read.' Lisa MacInerney 'A vivid and memorable book about art, land and language, love and sex, youth and age. Big ideas tread lightly through Audrey Magee's strong prose.' Sarah Moss 'I utterly adored it' Marian Keyes 'So brilliant in its quiet tragedy, so revealing in its precision, it haunts me.' Tsitsi Dangarembga He handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea. Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine - the authentic experience. Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place - one in his paintings, the other by capturing its speech, the language he hopes to preserve. But the people who live on this rock - three miles long and half-a-mile wide - have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken and what is given in return. Soft summer days pass, and the ...