Broken Country Wins Amazon UK’s Best Book of the Year!

Clare Leslie Hall's 'Broken Country' wins Amazon UK's Best Book of the Year 2025. A love story + thriller set in Dorset, it's been optioned for film and selected for Reese Witherspoon's Book Club.

Amazon Editor’s Review

Jen Barrett, Amazon Books UK editor, said: “Clare Leslie Hall’s sweeping, unputdownable unique adeptly integrates the suffering of a terrific love story with the speed of a residential thriller, making it a worthy winner of our Finest Book of the Year for 2025. There was such a breadth of talent across this year’s shortlists, however Broken Country entirely astounded us with its innovative, psychologically billed consider difficult options and the long-term imprint left by a puppy love.

“Hall’s writing is magnificently evocative and lyrical, drawing visitors deep right into the Dorset landscape, which serves as a backdrop to simmering secrets and devastating betrayals. The narrative masterfully moves in between previous and present, constructing excruciating thriller as an old love envy, triangular, and grief culminate in deadly repercussions and a murder test. You’ll find on your own recommending it everywhere.”

Author’s Delight

Hall stated: “It is such a terrific honour to have Broken Country picked as Amazon UK’s Best Book of the Year. It has suggested the globe to me to see visitors connecting with Beth, Frank and Gabriel’s story and I am genuinely delighted.”

Amazon has called Clare Leslie Hall’s Broken Nation (John Murray) as Ideal Book of the Year 2025. The book was published in March and has given that been grabbed for movie adjustment, has actually been a bestseller and was selected for Reese Witherspoon’s Publication Club. Guide took the leading spot over other shortlisted titles such as The Trespasser by Freida McFadden and The Allow Them To Concept by Mel Robbins.

Previous Award Winners

This is the 3rd year of the award, with RF Kuang and David Nicholls winning the title in 2023 and 2024 respectively. Every year, the shortlist is chosen by the Amazon Books UK team to “commemorate the titles they have actually enjoyed most”. Together with their editorial critiques, the team considers a range of variables throughout their choice making, consisting of visitor reviews and Amazon Charts data.