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|title=The Land of Decoration
|sort=Land of Decoration
|publisher=Chatto & Windus
|date=March 2012
|website=http://www.gracemccleen.com
|video=EfVQmRKPqfA
|summary=Unsettling and highly original, narrated by a ten year old girl growing up in a house of fundamental religious views, this debut novel is full of charm and humour as well as dark concepts. If you enjoyed Emma Donoghue's Room last year, you'll love this.
|cover=Mccleen_Land
|aznuk=0099565749
|aznus=B006H7AAM8
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Our huge thanks to the kind ''little people'' at Chatto & Windus for decorating our bookshelves with this charming book.
The most strikingly obvious recommendation of reading this is [[Room by Emma Donoghue]], again featuring a believable child narrator. This book is likely to be as much praised as Donoghue's book was last year. [[The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent]], set in the historic world of the Salem witch trials, is also well worth a look. In non-fiction terms, you might also enjoy [[Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson]] whose upbringing was almost as disturbing as Judith's. We think you'll also enjoy [[The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen]].
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{{toptentext|list=The Desmond Elliott Prize for Debut Fiction Published in the UK 2012}}
