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Year of Marvellous Ways
Sarah Winman
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Description for Year of Marvellous Ways
paperback. A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS is the much anticipated and utterly beguiling new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
*A Richard & Judy Bookclub Pick Spring 2016* A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS is the unforgettable and completely captivating new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. 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 on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she ... Read moresees 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. Show Less
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London, United Kingdom
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About Sarah Winman
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 three novels, WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT, A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS and TIN MAN.
Reviews for Year of Marvellous Ways
What struck me was Winman's gorgeous imagery, beautiful passages and imaginative storytelling. Quirky and slightly hairbrained, A Year of Marvellous Ways is an unforgettable book
Mitford Society Summer Reads
What struck me was Winman's gorgeous imagery, beautiful passages and imaginative storytelling. Quirky and slightly hairbrained, A Year of Marvellous Ways is an unforgettable book
Mitford Society Summer ... Read moreReads
The stories are touching and the twist of magical realism lends them a joyful, fairytale element
Daily Record
The stories are touching and the twist of magical realism lends them a joyful, fairytale element
Daily Record
She is particularly good at bringing the sensations of landscape to bear - its smell, sound and look - and in Marvellous has created a character of warmth and eccentricity
Metro
She is particularly good at bringing the sensations of landscape to bear - its smell, sound and look - and in Marvellous has created a character of warmth and eccentricity
Metro
A breathtaking reading experience... a beautiful book that is unafraid to reveal the ugliness of the world
Toronto Star
A breathtaking reading experience... a beautiful book that is unafraid to reveal the ugliness of the world
Toronto Star
A truly enchanting book
Irish Times
A truly enchanting book
Irish Times
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 of ETTA AND OTTO AND RUSSELL AND JAMES 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 of ETTA AND OTTO AND RUSSELL AND JAMES 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 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 The book demonstrates vividly how we need family around us, whether homegrown or grafted, to live our fullest lives... By the end of this novel, we too belong in the world of Marvellous Ways
Sunday Express, S Magazine
The book demonstrates vividly how we need family around us, whether homegrown or grafted, to live our fullest lives... By the end of this novel, we too belong in the world of Marvellous Ways
Sunday Express, S Magazine
In this warm, kindly novel, the sea is both magical and healing. Lovely
The Times
In this warm, kindly novel, the sea is both magical and healing. Lovely
The Times
A gripping waiting game ... The novel's surprising denouement is also well worth the wait
Observer
A gripping waiting game ... The novel's surprising denouement is also well worth the wait
Observer
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 HALL 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 HALL A glorious poem of a novel - a story to read slowly and to marvel at the beauty of it
Rosamund Lupton, author of SISTER A glorious poem of a novel - a story to read slowly and to marvel at the beauty of it
Rosamund Lupton, author of SISTER 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 Year of Marvellous Ways is like Dylan Thomas given a sexy rewrite by Angela Carter
Patrick Gale, author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER Moving... offbeat and memorable
Woman & Home
Moving... offbeat and memorable
Woman & Home
A lavish and clever read which will stand the test of time
Irish Examiner
A lavish and clever read which will stand the test of time
Irish Examiner
One to read slowly so you can savour every beautiful sentence
Good Housekeeping (Book of the Month)
One to read slowly so you can savour every beautiful sentence
Good Housekeeping (Book of the Month)
Beautifully written
Sun on Sunday, Fabulous Magazine
Beautifully written
Sun on Sunday, Fabulous Magazine
Winman excels in her sweeping prose and her unwavering theme of love in all its forms
Stylist
Winman excels in her sweeping prose and her unwavering theme of love in all its forms
Stylist
Fanciful imagery and beautiful prose that ebbs and flows
Independent
Fanciful imagery and beautiful prose that ebbs and flows
Independent
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