A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS: Exclusive Chapter Sampler
Published on 9. April 2015
32 pages
978-1-4722-3134-5 (ISBN)
Description
An exclusive free sample from Sarah Winman's new novel, A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS.
From the author of the bestselling WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT comes this spellbinding new novel.
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 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.
A Year of Marvellous Ways is a glorious, life-affirming story about the magic in everyday life and the pull of the sea, the healing powers of storytelling and sloe gin, love and death and how we carry on when grief comes snapping at our heels.
From the author of the bestselling WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT comes this spellbinding new novel.
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 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.
A Year of Marvellous Ways is a glorious, life-affirming story about the magic in everyday life and the pull of the sea, the healing powers of storytelling and sloe gin, love and death and how we carry on when grief comes snapping at our heels.
Reviews / Votes
A Year of Marvellous Ways is like Dylan Thomas given a sexy rewrite by Angela Carter -- Patrick Gale, author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER A glorious poem of a novel - a story to read slowly and to marvel at the beauty of it -- Rosamund Lupton, author of SISTER Folkloric, poetic, gorgeous. All I needed was a campfire and a bottle of moonshine -- Emylia Hall, author of THE BOOK OF SUMMERS The sense of magic infused through the novel casts a spell over the reader that makes you not want to put the book down until you've turned the final page -- Hannah Beckerman, author of THE DEAD WIFE'S HANDBOOK A book to savour, to read in wonderful, rich little bits like dark chocolate. Winman's prose is poetry, with a rhythm, a heartbeat, that carries you through like music -- Emma Hooper, author if ETTA AND OTTO AND RUSSELL AND JAMES Yet again Sarah Winman has written a beautiful, beautiful novel. A Year of Marvellous Ways will hypnotise, seduce, until you can do nothing but pick it up and read it again -- Tiffany Murray, author of DIAMOND STAR HALO and SUGAR HALLMore details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Edition type
Digital original
File size
1,41 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4722-3134-5 (9781472231345)
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Person
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.
