'Just downright brilliant... a transcendant, transporting experience' Observer
'A full-throttle blast of storytelling mastery' Max Porter
A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world.
When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail... So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears.
A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore.
Pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.
'A breathless, delightful, utterly absorbing read' Guardian
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- Authors:
- Haddon, Mark
- Year Published:
- 2019
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781784742829
- Number of Pages:
- 336
- Publication Date:
- 09/05/2019
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Imprint:
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication:
- London
- SKU:
- 9781784742829