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Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and unable to face a return to his family home in rural Nova Scotia, he goes in search of freedom, change, anonymity and repair. We follow Walker through a sequence of poems as he moves through post-war American cities of New York, Los Angles and San Francisco.

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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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