Susie Mesure

A treatise on greed: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff reviewed

The American author turns her attention to colonial injustice in a tale about a servant girl who flees a blighted English settlement in 17th-century Jamestown

The arrival of the English colonists at Jamestown in 1607. [Alamy]
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  • The Vaster Wilds

    Lauren Groff

    Hutchinson, pp. 272, £20

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