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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Fiction, International Fiction, Adult, New Releases
ISBN: 9781804998663
Published: June 2026
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 304
Format: Paperback
RRP 275.00

Lone Women

Victor LaValle

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Blue skies, rolling plains -and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret.
Best Book of the Year: Esquire, Washington Post, Vulture
'Deftly weaves history, horror, suspense, and the perspectives of those rarely recorded in the West.' The New York Times
A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere.
Montana, 1915. When the US government offers Americans free land to those who can tame it, Adelaide Henry leaps at the chance. She's fleeing from California and the family home that was left behind in flames. With no choice but to run, Adelaide becomes a 'lone woman', a female homesteader staking her claim on the unforgiving Montana soil.
Yet, no matter how far she goes,...

About the Author

Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle is the author of eight works of fiction: five novels, two novellas, and a collection of short stories. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, an American Book Award, two Bram Stoker Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. His novels have been included in best-of-the-year lists by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation and Publishers Weekly, among others. The Devil in Silver is soon to be a major TV series. He lives in the Bronx with his wife and kids and teaches at Columbia University.

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