What a glorious, beautiful seashanty of a book this is. A fairy tale of wild, seaswept children and wolfish fear. Written in a compelling, rushing language. Daisy Johnson, author of the Man Bookerlonglisted Everything UnderEllie Fleck has a question for everything, except the one she cannot ask.Where have they taken her mother?Ten years old and irrepressibly curious, Ellie lives with her fisherman father, Peter, on the wild North Yorkshire coast. Its the 1980s and her mothers breakdown is discussed only in whispers, with the promise better by Christmas and no further explanation.Steering by the light of her dads seamyths, her mums memories of home across the water, and a fierce spirit all her own, Ellie begins to learn in these sudden, strange circumstances who she is and what she can become. By the time the first snowdrops show, her innocence has been shed, but at great cost.

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 418 g; Dimensions: 192 x 122 x 23

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