Sea of Whispers by Tim Bowler
Somehow the boat was still afloat - another wave had lifted it clear of the first rock and was driving it further inshore. It bumped against the base of Crab Rock and skewed around, then tipped momentarily to starboard . . . and as it did so, she saw a figure crouching in the bottom. Hetty's always been a bit of a loner, preferring to keep to the outer edges of the close-knit island community. But when a strange woman is washed up on the shore, Hetty finds herself under increasing scrutiny from the islanders. There's a connection between Hetty and the woman that makes people suspicious, so when death comes to the community the woman is branded a bad omen and Hetty has no choice but to take matters into her own hands. As she heads out to sea, a storm is breaking and the whispers that she's heard before are louder than ever. Voices from the very depths of the sea . . . and they're calling her name.
Grounded in reality but teetering so piquantly and precariously on the borders of the paranormal, Sea of Whispers is his latest enthralling mystery - a seductive tale of loss, despair, determination, bravery and the search for identity* Lancaster Guardian *
Tim Bowler is one of the UK’s most compelling and original writers for teenagers. Tim was born and brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the setting of his first novel, Midget. On leaving school he studied Swedish and Scandinavian Studies at East Anglia University, and lived for a while in Sweden. He then worked in a number of fields, including forestry and the timber trade, and spent seven years as a teacher. By the time he left teaching, Tim had become Head of Modern Languages at a school in Newton Abbot, Devon. He lives with his wife in a small village in Devon and his workroom is an old stone outhouse known to friends as `Tim’s Bolthole’.Tim has written eighteen books and won fifteen awards, including the prestigious Carnegie Medal for River Boy, and his provocative BLADE series is hailed as a groundbreaking work of fiction. He has been described by the Sunday Telegraph as `the master of psychological thriller’ and by the Independent as `one of the truly individual voices in British teenage fiction’.Find out more about Tim at www.timbowler.co.uk
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192728708 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192728709 |
| Title | Sea of Whispers |
| Author | Tim Bowler |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2014-01-02 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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