Wrecker by Noel O’reilly
`Compelling Sunday Times A powerful debut exploring the dark side of Cornwall the wrecking and the drowned sailors where poverty drove villagers to dark deeds`Written with a blazing energy and a Gothic edge, this portrait of 19th-century Cornwall is a cracker’ Daily Mail
`Noel O’Reilly’s lyrical writing brilliantly evokes the struggles of life in such a dramatic setting, as well as the hypocrisy and jealousy of society and Church.’ Sunday Express
`Compelling’ Sunday Times
`full of secrets, suspicions and rumour’ Woman & Home
`With perfect prose, a fast-paced, intricate plot, and Mary, this is fiction of a literary standard that can’t fail to please the reader.’ MyWeekly
`With echoes of Du Maurier, this compelling Cornish drama weaves a tangled web of fallen faiths, of sins, seductions and deceits.’ Essie Fox
`A gripping historical tale. Laced with Cornwall and menace in equal measure. I loved it.’ Liz Fenwick
`Intense and immersive. It totally swept me away.’ Nicola Cornick
`Noel O’Reilly conjures the spectacle of disintegrating ships and the gruesome business of scavengers picking as corpses washed ashore in this story about smugglers and wreckers in a Cornish fishing village.’ MAIL ONLINE
Noel O’Reilly was a student on the New Writing South Advanced writing course. He has worked as a journalist and editor at the international business media company RBI, and is now a freelance writer. Wrecker was his first novel. He lives in Brighton with his wife and children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780008274511 |
| ISBN 10 | 0008274517 |
| Title | Wrecker |
| Author | Noel O’reilly |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2018-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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