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The Porpoise
Mark Haddon
The Porpoise
Mark Haddon
'I really am so very, very sorry about this,' he says, in an oddly formal voice... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour. A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail... So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 9, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9781784742836 |
Publishers | Random House |
Genre | Fiction |
Pages | 336 |
Dimensions | 232 × 154 × 31 mm · 420 g |
Language | English |
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