Light Across the Plains

"Light Across the Plains is a tale of boundaries and borders, frontiers and walls, and the necessity of crossing them, if not breaking them down. Duggal shows her storytelling ability in a book which holds its reveals until the final few pages: like all great plots, it is both inevitable and utterly unexpected."- CD Rose, 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner

"A beautiful story… wonderful writing, set down with elegance, courage and compassion. Epic in ambition and full of heartfelt, piercing insights" — Katy Massey, author

"Vivid, impeccably researched, delicately rendered exploration of the lives of three generations of women seeking love, purpose and freedom, and the barriers – both real and imagined – placed on them. Poignant, devastating and ultimately hopeful, it’s a gem."­ — Laura Wilkinson, author

"Sharon Duggal writes with both ambition and warmth, finding powerful moments of intimacy for her characters within the broad social sweep of her fiction. It's a rare and wonderful combination" -- Ed Hogan, author

"With deft confidence, Duggal finely, meticulously, outlines a cultural and political backdrop scaling decades and continents, while excavating unspoken family history, deeply buried secrets and the inevitability of change " — Yvvette Edwards, author

"A moving and thoroughly absorbing story.... Quietly compelling, and highly recommended" — Beth Miller, author