| ISBN |
9781784742836 (pbk.) |
| 178474283X |
| 9781784742829 |
| 1784742821 |
| Classification Number |
F |
| Author |
Haddon, Mark, 1962- |
| Title |
The Porpoise [BK] |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The flight -- The child -- The porpoise -- The family -- The serpent -- The hunt -- The storm. |
| " '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. |
| Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 |
| Subject |
Voyages and travels -- Fiction |
| Aircraft accidents -- Fiction |
| Widowers -- Fiction |
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Mythology, Greek -- Fiction |
| Parables |
| Sea stories |
| Aircraft accidents -- Fiction |
| Widowers -- Fiction |
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Mythology, Greek -- Fiction |
| Additional Author |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Pericles. |
