
The Rain Goose
Peter Benson(Author)
Salt Publishing
Will be published approx. on 22. February 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-78463-436-0 (ISBN)
Description
When his wife Mary dies, a retired mechanic leaves the south of England and buys a small house in Orkney. He has his birds, his walks, his memories. And then, one wild morning on the cliffs at Marwick Head, a young woman in an old-fashioned coat steps quietly off the edge in front of him. She is not the first to have done so. Her name was Bethany Buchanan. The year was 1956.
A quiet, painterly literary ghost story set against the lochs, fulmars and red-throated divers of the Orkney isles, The Rain Goose is the thirteenth novel from the Guardian Fiction Prize-winning author of The Levels, and a tender study of grief, the call of the dead, and the slow work of letting them go.
A quiet, painterly literary ghost story set against the lochs, fulmars and red-throated divers of the Orkney isles, The Rain Goose is the thirteenth novel from the Guardian Fiction Prize-winning author of The Levels, and a tender study of grief, the call of the dead, and the slow work of letting them go.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Adult education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78463-436-0 (9781784634360)
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Person
Peter Benson is the author of twelve previous novels including The Levels, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, A Lesser Dependency, Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke, Isabel's Skin and The Stromness Dinner. His work has appeared on the lists of Constable, Macmillan, Alma and Seren. He lives in the south-west of England.