Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. Twelve years on, he must return to Australia to deal with his inheritance. But the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young woman, whose own life has been marked by tragedy, persuade him to stay. They marry, and he finds himself drawn into the eccentric, often hilarious dynamics of island life. Longing for children, the couple open their home to a disquieting guest, a teenage castaway, whose presence on the farm begins to unravel their tenuously forged happiness, while at the same time offering the prospect of a much greater fulfilment. SECRETS OF THE SEA is Nicholas Shakespeare''s finest novel to date.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Random House International
ISBN: 9781846550690
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 25/06/2007
Año de edición: 2007
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas Shakespeare ha vivido durante muchos años en el Lejano Oriente y en América Latina. Es autor de la novela La visión de Elena Silves (1989) y de una biografía sobre Bruce Chatwin. En 1993 fue elegido como uno de los Mejores Novelistas Británicos.