Synopsis
‘Exhilarating’ – Sunday Times
‘Rapturous’ – Sunday Telegraph
‘A remarkable tale of grace and danger’ – Financial Times
When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than anyone what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. Bruce remembers what it was like to be a risk-taking kid,...
Details
01 May 2009
256 pages
9780330508414
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
An absorbing, powerful and deeply beautiful novelObserver
A love letter to the sea and a moving coming-of-age story . . . RapturousSunday Telegraph
Breath has the sensibility and reach of an epicScotland on Sunday
Full of fizz and a vital poetry of sun, sand, sea and airIndependent on Sunday