Secrets of the Sea by N Shakespeare
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. Twelve years on, he must return to Australia to deal with his inheritance. But 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 on the farm begins to unravel their tenuously forged happiness, while at the same time offering the prospect of a much greater fulfilment. Secrets of the Sea is Nicholas Shakespeare s finest novel to date.
NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE is the author of The Vision of Elena Silves (1989), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; The High Flyer, for which he was chosen for the Granta list in 1993 and The Dancer Upstairs, which was the American Libraries Association's Best Novel of 1997. His biography, Bruce Chatwin (1999), was published to unstinting critical acclaim. His most recent book, In Tasmania (2004), which chronicles his own connection to the island, was hailed by the Telegraph as 'a brilliant and glittering romance'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846550690 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846550696 |
| Title | Secrets of the Sea |
| Author | N Shakespeare |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2007-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2008 |
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