Martin Sutton won the inaugural 2013 Historical Novel Society International Award, with a prize of £5,000, for his novel Lost Paradise.
Lost Paradise tells of William Pascoe, a young gardener on the Heligan estate in Cornwall, who is wrenched away from a blossoming but difficult romance to fight at the front on the Somme.
W H Smith Travel fiction buyer Matthew Bates, described Lost Paradise as a “haunting, generational novel of war, love, secrets and lies… with the scope of, say, a Kate Morton.”
