TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haddon, Mark,
TI  - The porpoise: a novel 
SN  - 9781784742829
AV  - PR6058.A26 P67 2019
U1  - 823/.914 23
PY  - 2019///.
CY  - London : 
PB  - Chatto & Windus, 
KW  - Shakespeare, William,
KW  - Aircraft accidents
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Widowers
KW  - Fathers and daughters
KW  - Mythology, Greek
KW  - Parables
KW  - Sea stories
KW  - Mythological fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Sea fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; The flight -- The child -- The porpoise -- The family -- The serpent -- The hunt -- The storm
N2  - "'I really am so very, very sorry about this, ' he says, in an oddly formal voice ... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour. A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail ... So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home."--Provided by publisher
ER  -