TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winman,Sarah
TI  - A year of Marvellous Ways
SN  - 9780755390915
PY  - 2015///, ©2015
CY  - London
PB  - Tinder Press
KW  - Older women
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Solitude
KW  - Grief
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Cornwall (England : County)
N2  - Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone in a remote creek for nearly all her life. Recently she's taken to spending her days sitting on the steps of her caravan with a pair of binoculars. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Freddy Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the war. He's agreed to fulfil a dying friend's last wish and hand-deliver a letter to the boy's father in Cornwall. But Freddy's journey doesn't go to plan, and sees him literally wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken in body and spirit. When Marvellous comes to his aid, an unlikely friendship grows between the two. Can Freddy give Marvellous what she needs to say goodbye to the world, and can she give him what he needs to go on?
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