Audrey Magee is the author of The Undertaking, a novel shortlisted for several prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction and France’s Prix du Premier Roman. She lives in Wicklow, Ireland.
‘Imagine that, said Mairéad. A Frenchman and an Englishman squabbling over our turf.’A linguist and a painter clash in this excerpt from The Colony by Audrey Magee.
