Already a Sunday Times bestselling author with her first novel, A Map of the Damage confirms Sophia Tobin as a rising star. Stunning historical fiction for fans of Tracy Chevalier.
Both of our love affairs began with violence. Charlotte’s with a carriage accident; mine, with a bomb.
A Map of the Damage is a story of two love triangles, separated by a century, and of two women embattled by notions of class, passion and femininity: Livy, a young woman living through the Blitz, and Charlotte, a wealthy married woman of the 1840s.
Praise for The Vanishing
‘Undeniably page-turning’ Mail on Sunday
'Think Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, but ten times darker, and you have The Vanishing … as dark and eerie and gothic as the Yorkshire Moors it is set on. One to curl up by the fire with on a windy night’ Stylist
‘Entertaining’ Times
‘Vivid, absorbing and wonderfully gothic, with shades of Sarah Waters and Emily and Charlotte Brontë’ Kate Riordan
‘Brilliantly Brontë-esque. Perfect reading for a stormy night’ Anna Mazzola
‘A vivid sense of the period … which stays with the reader long after the final page’ the i
‘The plotting is skilful, with a network of lies being woven so that no one, characters or readers, can be sure of the truth’ Daily Express
‘Atmosphere aplenty and some real surprises’ Daily Mail
‘Echoes Wuthering Heights with its setting and sense of intrigue’ Red
‘An atmospheric tale of betrayal and revenge’ woman&home
‘A thrilling, atmospheric page-turner’ Metro