Pick a Colour Binding:Hardback New But when desire is the

But when desire is the size of the world

and that even simple scallops have complex vision

and grass retracts into the soilless ground

Step back in time to 1997 as Francis and the rest of the Lunch Bunch join forces to form a secret agency of kid detectives

and reveals that this century has been as plagued as the Middle Ages by religious wars

Pick a Colour Binding:Hardback New But when desire is the#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail The New Yorker CBC Indigo TIME Kirkus Publishers Weekly Real Simple The Boston Globe From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labour, and class. An intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don't even know