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Win Jennifer Egan's stunning new novel MANHATTAN BEACH for your reading group

‘This is a novel that will pull you in and under and carry you away on its rip tides . . . Its resonances continue to wash over the reader long after the novel ends’ the Guardian

’2017’s Most Anticipated Book . . . it will suck you into its orbit and remind you just why it is you love reading’ Stylist magazine

Manhattan Beach is the first historical novel from Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan.

We have two sets of 10 copies to give away for reading groups and would love to hear what you think.

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