Whale Fall
25 April 2024
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell
'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision' - Colm Tóibín
An Observer Best Debut of the Year 2024
The audiobook is read by Gwyneth Keyworth, and featuring, Gabrielle Glaister, Jot Davies, Dyfrig Morris and Nick Griffiths.
It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the...
Details
25 April 2024
231 minutes
Gwyneth Keyworth
9781035024759
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Evocative and haunting . . . written with a care and restraint that is rare in a debut novel. It teems with visceral imageryJude Cook, Guardian
O’Connor’s beautifully evocative debut explores the liminal spaces between aspiration and disappointment, adolescence and adulthood, land and sea . . . a highly impressive coming-of-age taleThe Observer
An excellent debut . . . Brief but complete, the book is an example of precisely observed writing that makes a character’s specific existence glimmer with verisimilitudeMaggie Shipstead, New York Times
A beautifully nuanced, beguiling first novel, which leaves room for hope. O’Connor has a promising career aheadThe Times