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Whale Fall

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03 April 2025
224 pages
9781035024766
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
Gorgeous and heartbreaking . . . I weptYael van der Wouden, author of The Safekeep
'An excellent debut . . . Brief but complete, the book is an example of precisely observed writing that makes a character’s specific existence glimmer with verisimilitude'Maggie Shipstead, New York Times