The Island of Mists and Miracles

Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see. In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Laboure was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign. Which is why she accepts a mission to go to a tiny community on an island just off the coast of Brittany. Her only companion there is a sceptical, chain-smoking older nun who just wants to be left in peace. On the island she meets Hugo, the son of a devout family who prefers to look for the meaning of life amid the stars; Madenn, a grandmother whose daughter was killed in a crash and who finds meaning in routine; Isaac, Madenn''s grandson, an otherworldly teenager who doesn''t fit in but who befriends Hugo, and Julia, a sickly child. If anyone needs a miracle, it is her. But it is not Sister Anne who receives a vision. Instead it is Isaac who is found on a promontary, transfixed, unable to utter more than the words ''I see''. The event soon becomes headline news and the world descends on the small island, opening old wounds and unleashing a chain of events none of them could have foreseen.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Mas, Mas Victoria
• Assisted by: Frank Wynne (Translation), Wynne Frank (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781804991725
• ISBN: 978-1-80499-172-5
• No. of pages: 211
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Sense of place, FICTION / Feminist, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Brittany, FICTION / World Literature / France / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary