Lila Av Marilynne Robinson

<p><b>WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD</b><br><br><b>AN OPRAH''S BOOK CLUB PICK</b><br><br>Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the<br>only available shelter from the rain - and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life.<br><br><b>''One of the greatest living novelists'' </b>BRYAN APPLEYARD, <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i><br><br><b>''Robinson is frequently named as one of America''s most significant writers . . . Her questioning books express </b><b>wonder: they are enlightening, in the best sense, passionately contesting our facile, recycled understanding of ourselves and of our world'' </b>SARAH CHURCHWELL, <i>GUARDIAN</i><br><br><b>''The work of an exceptional novelist'' </b>ROWAN WILLIAMS, <i>NEW STATESMAN</i><br><br><b>''A sumptuous, graceful and ultimately life-affirming novel'' </b>JAMES KIDD, <i>INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY</i><br><br><b>''Great and luminous beauty . . . a book that leaves the reader feeling what can only be called exaltation'' </b>NEEL MUKHERJEE, <i>INDEPENDENT</i></p>