We are proud to celebrate the launch of The Hired Man, Aminatta Forna’s powerful new novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town. Aminatta’s previous novel The Memory of Love was our Big Bath Read in 2011, short-listed for the Orange Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. ‘Forna is a writer of great talent who does not shy from tackling the toughest questions about why humans do the things they do: from the smallest act of betrayal to the greatest acts of love.’ Monica Ali.