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The Visitor
K Stansfield
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Description for The Visitor
Hardcover. The horizon is a blue streak across the pale sea, giving the trick of land close enough to sail to. Pearl imagines a packet ship surging to another world with two passengers safe in the bows, their hands joined together. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 205 x 28. Weight in Grams: 410.
1880. Pearl, Jack and Nicholas play among the fishing boats of Skommow Bay, not understanding the undercurrents beneath their games. As they grow older, the choices they make shape the pattern of their lives. 1936 and everything has changed. The fish have stopped coming and the Pilchard Palace is abandoned. Pearl, exiled in favour of holidaymakers, turns to the memory of her great love, and her greatest loss. She's waiting for her own visitor. Will he come for her? The sea's ghosts are stirring. The past can be more alive than the present...The fictional village in which the ... Read more
1880. Pearl, Jack and Nicholas play among the fishing boats of Skommow Bay, not understanding the undercurrents beneath their games. As they grow older, the choices they make shape the pattern of their lives. 1936 and everything has changed. The fish have stopped coming and the Pilchard Palace is abandoned. Pearl, exiled in favour of holidaymakers, turns to the memory of her great love, and her greatest loss. She's waiting for her own visitor. Will he come for her? The sea's ghosts are stirring. The past can be more alive than the present...The fictional village in which the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books
Number of pages
350
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
409g
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909844087
SKU
V9781909844087
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-22
About K Stansfield
Katherine Stansfield was born in 1983 and grew up on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. She moved to Wales in 2002 to study at Aberystwyth University where she now works as a lecturer in Creative Writing. She is also an associate member of the Institute of Cornish Studies at Exeter University. Her poetry has appeared in Cheval, the anthology of commended ... Read more
Reviews for The Visitor
'An evocative record of a lost age... unmistakably heartfelt.' Daily Mail 'Katherine Stansfield's debut is a poignant and intricately crafted story of love and loss, picturesquely and memorably set on the sea-coast of Cornwall.' Stevie Davies