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Trinidad in the 1940s. Hans Saroop lives with his wife Shweta and their son in a crowded barrack-yard on the edge of a great estate. When Dalton Changoor, the estate's wealthy owner, vanishes, his wife Marlee asks Hans to guard the house at night, and the lives of the two families become dangerously entangled.

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Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (Winners)
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is awarded each year at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose, close to Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, often called the father of the historical novel. Founded in 2010, it is open to novels set at least sixty years before their publication. Hilary Mantel won the first prize with Wolf Hall and won again with The Mirror & the Light, and Sebastian Barry has also won twice. This list collects the winning novels by year.

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