How Saints Die

376 Pages·2017·9.468 MB·English

by  Carmen Marcus

CARMEN MARCUS
HOW
SAI NTS
DIE
Ellie Fleck has a question for
everything - but there is one she
cannot ask. Where have they
taken her mother?
Ten years old and irrepressibly curious,
Ellie lives with her fisherman father, Peter,
on the wild North Yorkshire coast. It’s
the 1980s and her mother’s breakdown is
discussed only in whispers, with the promise
‘better by Christmas’ and no further
explanation.
Steering by the light of her dad’s sea-myths,
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her mum’s memories of home across
the water, and a fierce spirit all her own, renew this item call:
Ellie begins to learn - in these sudden, 33 370 4700
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what she can become. By the time the first
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snowdrops show, her innocence has been
shed, but at great cost.
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This vivacious and deeply moving novel
portrays adult breakdown through the eyes
of a brightly imaginative child, sensitively
explores questions of responsibility and
care, and, above all, celebrates the power of
stories to shape, nourish and even save us.
£14.99

How Saints Die

Carmen Marcus
How Saints Die
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Copyright © Carmen Marcus 2017
Inside illustrations © Owen Gent 2017
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Work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
First published by Harvill Seeker in 2017
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 9781911215400
Extract from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson,
published by Jonathan Cape. Reprinted by permission of The Random House
Group Ltd. ©Jeanette Winterson 2011
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