The Virgin and the Whale
a love story
A touching, clever novel about stories, about using them to create your own identity, and about the way they can forge bonds of love.It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, 'presumed dead'. She keeps him alive for their four-year-old son, Jack, by telling the story of a man she calls The Balloonist, who went away in a hot-air balloon and has adventures in exotic countries.When she is asked to nurse a returned soldier whose head injury has reduced him to an animal-like state with no memory, Elizabeth starts telling her stories to him.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-77553-376-4
- EAN: 9781775533764
- Produktnummer: 36625187
- Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: Main
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Carl Nixon
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