SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWNLONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION 2021 BEST NOVELFor fans of Matt Haig Stuart Turton and Bridget Collins comes a sweeping historical adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetOriginal joyous and horrifying The Kingdoms is an aweinspiring feat of imagination and passion which had me in tears by the end Catriona WardCome home if you rememberThe postcard has been held at the sorting office for ninetyone years waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier. On the front is a lighthouse Eilean Mor in the Outer Hebrides.Joe has never left England never even left London. He is a British slave one of thousands throughout the French Empire. He has a job a wife a baby daughter.But he also has flashes of a life he cannot remember and of a world that never existed a world where English is spoken in England and not French.And now he has a postcard of a lighthouse built just six months ago that was first written nearly one hundred years ago by a stranger who seems to know him very well.Joes journey to unravel the truth will take him from Frenchoccupied London to a remote Scottish island and back through time itself as he battles for his life and for a very different future.