Secrets of the Sea
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Description
Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young woman whose own life has been marked by tragedy, persuade him to stay. They marry, and he finds himself drawn into the eccentric, often hilarious dynamics of island life. Longing for children, the couple open their home to a disquieting guest, a teenage castaway, whose presence in their home begins to unravel their tenuously forged happiness.
Additional information
Weight | 0.341 kg |
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Dimensions | 3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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Pages | 496 |
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Year Published | 2008-8-7 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 0099507773 |
About The Author | NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE was born in Worcester in 1957 and grew up in the Far East and Latin America. He is the author of The Vision of the Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask awards, The High Flyer, for which he was nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, and The Dancer Upstairs, selected by the American Libraries Association as the best novel of 1997 and adapted for the film of the same title directed by John Malkovich. His last book was In Tasmania, winner of the 2007 Tasmania Book Prize. He is also the author of an acclaimed biography of Bruce Chatwin. |
Carefully measured storytelling in this enveloping tale of life's small treasures lost and found |
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Other text | Beautifully done. It reads absolutely true |
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