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[email protected] Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd. 291 Gray’s Inn Road London WC1X 8QJ Telephone (020) 7373 8672 www.aitkenalexander.co.uk @AitkenAlexander Cover image: Knopf cover for HIGH DIVE ‘Jonathan Lee’s achingly good new novel’ – The New Yorker FICTION A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker From the bestselling author of LONGBOURN, a haunting new novel of spies and artists, passion and danger, hope in the face of despair. Paris, 1939. The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs-Élysées. A young, unknown writer—Samuel Beckett—recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon, he will put them both in mortal danger by joining the Resistance . Through it all we are witness to the workings of a uniquely brilliant mind struggling to create a language that will express this shattered world.