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Zusatztext What struck me was Winman's gorgeous imagery! beautiful passages and imaginative storytelling. Quirky and slightly hairbrained! A Year of Marvellous Ways is an unforgettable book Informationen zum Autor Sarah Winman grew up in Essex and now lives in London. She attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and went on to act in theatre, film and television. She has written four novels, WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT, A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS, TIN MAN and STILL LIFE. Klappentext Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid. Zusammenfassung A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS is the much anticipated and utterly beguiling new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT
