Whale Fall

''I didn''t want it to end'' - Maggie O''Farrell ''Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision'' - Colm Toibin An Observer Best Debut of the Year 2024 It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself. The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the island''s shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villagers steeling themselves for what''s to come. Empty houses remind them of the men taken by the Great War, and of the difficulty of building a life in the island''s harsh, salt-stung landscape. When two anthropologists from the mainland arrive, Manod sees in them a rare moment of opportunity to leave the island and discover the life she has been searching for. But, as she guides them across the island''s cliffs, she becomes entangled in their relationship, and her imagined future begins to seem desperately out of reach. Elizabeth O''Connor''s beautiful, devastating debut Whale Fall tells a story of longing and betrayal set against the backdrop of a world on the edge of great tumult. ''The quiet cadences of Whale Fall contain a deep melody of loss held and let go. It is a gentle, tough story about profound change'' - Anne Enright

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth O'Connor, O'Connor Elizabeth
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.04.2025
• EAN: 9781035024766
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3502476-6
• No. of pages: 209
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, 20th Century, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, British Isles, FICTION / Nature & the Environment, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II