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2009 Longlist

Secrets of the Sea

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

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.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Nicholas
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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

This new novel by an internationally recognised writer brings to life the “claustrophobic, gossipy, defiant ” island society in which it is set.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
England
Original Language
English
Publisher
Harvill Secker

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