The Road meets Waiting for Godot powerful, unforgettable, unique Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time.Doggerland is a superbly gripping debut novel about loneliness and hope, nature and survival set on an offshore windfarm in the notsodistant future.His fathers breath had been loud in the small room. It had smelled smoky, or maybe more like dust. He had knotted and unknotted a strap on the bag he was holding he must have been leaving to go out to the farm that day. Ill get out, hed said. Ill come back for you, ok? The boy remembered that had always remembered it. And, for a time, hed believed it too.In the North Sea, far from what remains of the coastline, a wind farm stretches for thousands of acres.The Boy, who is no longer really a boy, and the Old Man, whose age is unguessable, are charged with its maintenance. They carry out their neverending work, scoured by wind and salt, as the waves roll, dragging strange shoals of flotsam through the turbine fields. Land is only a memory.So too is the Boys father, who worked on the turbines before him, and disappeared. The boy has been sent by the Company to take his place, but the question of where he went and why is one for which the Old Man will give no answer.As his companion dredges the sea for lost things, the Boy sifts for the truth of his missing father. Until one day, from the limitless water, a plan for escape emergesThis beautifully crafted novel about loneliness and hope, nature and survival, is as haunting...

Binding: Paperback;208 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: FA; Weight: 306 g; Dimensions: 198 x 292 x 16

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