The Porpoise
By: Mark Haddon.
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BookPublisher: Chatto & Windus 21 May 2019Description: 336 Paperback.ISBN: 9781784742836.DDC classification:
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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 new-born 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 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.