The Pages of the Sea - Couverture souple

Hawk, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 177196653X ISBN 13 : 9781771966535

Editeur : Biblioasis, 2025

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the 2025 RSL Christopher Bland Prize - Shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize in Fiction - A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 - A Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2024 - A CBC Best Fiction Book of the Year

On a Caribbean island in the mid-1960s, a young girl copes with the heavy cost of migration.

When her mother emigrates to England to find work, Wheeler and her older sisters are left to live with their aunts and cousins. She spends most days with her cousin Donelle, knocking about their island community. They know they must address their elders properly and change their shoes after church. And during the long, quiet weeks of Lent, when the absent sound of the radio seems to follow them down the road, they look forward to kite season. But Donelle is just a child, too, and though her sisters look after her with varying levels of patience, Wheeler couldn't feel more alone. Everyone tells her that soon her mother will send for her, but how much longer will it be? And as she does her best to navigate the tensions between her aunts, why does it feel like there's no one looking out for her at all?

A story of sisterhood, secrets, and the sacrifices of love, The Pages of the Sea is a tenderly lyrical portrait of innocence and an intensely moving evocation of what it's like to be a child left behind.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anne Hawk grew up in the Caribbean, the UK and Canada. She has worked as a journalist, a paralegal and was for many years a secondary school teacher. She is married and lives in London. The Pages of the Sea is her first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Biblioasis
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 177196653X
• ISBN 13: 9781771966535
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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• Personne responsable: non disponible