The Porpoise
Author(s): Mark Haddon
'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.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.43
- : 21 May 2019
- : 2.4 Centimeters X 15.3 Centimeters X 23.3 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Mark Haddon
- : Paperback
- : 1905
- : English
- : 336