Whale Fall
'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet<BR><BR>'Gorgeous and heartbreaking . . . I wept' - Yael van der Wouden, author of The Safekeep<BR><BR>A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick<BR>An Observer Best Debut of the Year<BR>Shortlisted for the Betty Trask Award<BR><BR>It is 1938 and on an island off the coast of Wales, Manod is trying to imagine her future. Her choices are stark: she must either stay and look after her father's house, in the wild landscape that drove her mother to madness, or marry and leave.<BR><BR>And so, when two English anthropologists arrive on the island, Manod senses the possibility of a thrilling new life. But, as she becomes entangled in their work, and their strange relationship, the outside world she had yearned for appears a much darker place than she could ever have imagined.<BR><BR>Elizabeth O'Connor's beautiful, devastating debut Whale Fall tells a story of longing and betrayal set against the backdrop of a world on the brink of war.<BR><BR>'The quiet cadences of Whale Fall contain a deep melody of loss held and let go. It is a gentle, tough story about profound change' - Anne Enright<BR><BR>'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision' - Colm Tóibín
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