The Land of Decoration is the debut novel by British author Grace McCleen published in 2012 by Chatto & Windus.

[4] It became one of Waterstones 11,[5] an Oprah favourite,[6] has so far been translated into nineteen languages and was selected by the Richard and Judy Book Club.

[8] The story is about ten-year-old Judith, who lives with her father John in a small town, as members of a fundamentalist sect they warn their neighbours of the approaching armageddon.

Motherless and bullied at school Judith seeks escape in her bedroom where she has recreated the town as an elaborate model, which she calls the 'Land of Decoration', a phrase she takes from Ezekiel 20.

Speaking of her childhood in Wales, McCleen says "I grew up in a fundamentalist religion and didn’t have much contact with non-believers.