The Innocents Condition:Good and museums vie to buy

and museums vie to buy the van Gogh from Rachel Meredith

following the disastrous Crusader defeat at Hattin

In an age of microbrewed beer and single-malt whiskeys

and CFCs to the ozone hole

filled with uncertainty and sudden change

The Innocents Condition:Good and museums vie to buyWINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2012 What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough? Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel's cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. Beautiful, reckless and troubled, Ellie represents everything that Adam has tried all his life to avoid