The Hiding Place

This exceptional novel about family, love, and the innocence and terror of childhood was one of the most applauded and auspicious debuts of the last year. Compared by reviewers to Angela's Ashes and Wuthering Heights, The Hiding Place was the only debut work to be shortlisted for England's prestigious Booker Prize — in the company of Kazuo Ishiguro and Margaret Atwood — and went on to become a universally praised U.S. national best-seller. Set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wale…