Roma Tearne's novel about love during time of war and set in modern-day Sri Lanka has been shortlisted for the 2008
LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Winners will be announced at this year's LA Times Book festival at the end of April.
All of us here at Europa Editions would like to congratulate
Roma Tearne, whose next novel,
Bone China, will be available everywhere from July 2009.