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Hardback 272 Pages
Published: 05/04/2018

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An uncanny, startlingly beautiful story collection steeped in the Cornish landscape, from the award-winning author of Diving Belles and Other Stories and Weathering.

At the very edge of England, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the land and visitors flock in with the summer like seagulls, there is a Cornwall that is not shown on postcards.

It is a place where communication cables buzz deep beneath the sand; where satellite dishes turn like flowers on clifftops, and where people drift like flotsam, caught in eddying tides. Restless children haunt empty holiday homes, a surfer struggles with the undertow of family life, a girl watches her childhood spin away from her in the whirl of a night-time fairground and, in a web of sea caves, a brother and sister search the dark for something lost.

These astonishing, beguiling stories of ghosts and shifting sands, of static caravans and shipwrecked cargo, explore notions of landscape and belonging, permanence and impermanence, and the way places can take hold and never quite let go.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008193393
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 360 g
Dimensions: 222 x 141 x 26 mm

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“A dark eulogy to Cornish countryside....”

Lucy Wood's story collection has dark pastoral prose woven with her love of Cornish countryside, sea and fauna. What I really like is the some stories have almost ghostly, gothic elements to them. " The... More

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“Haunting, Sinister, Brilliant”

'The Sing of the Shore' is as haunting, enchanting and sinister as the Cornish landscape that inspired it. Weeks later, I'm still being drawn back to these intriguing tales and I have no doubt that... More

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