The Last Life

Claire Messud is the author of "When the World was Steady" which was shortlisted for the Pen/Faulkner Award.

This is the story of the teenage Sagesse Labasse and her family, French Algerian emigrants haunted by a past which refuses to relinquish its grasp. It is a novel about secrets and ghosts, love and honour, the stories we tell ourselves and the lies to which we cling.