Thunderstone

*WINNER OF THE ACKERLEY PRIZE 2023* 'Here is a writer who knows better than most of us how to live.' Helen Jukes, author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings 'There is just one object I want to carry inside the van... It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. I place this fossil on the windowsill, its surface gleaming like cat's eyes ahead of me on a dark road....