Manuscript
1 of 1 Copy Available
- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
Cygnet : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION BUTL (CEN)
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
Physical Description
224 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
The Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island. Swan isn't just any island; it is home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed - an unwelcome reminder of the life they left behind, and one they want rid of. Cygnet is the story of a young woman battling against the thrashing waves of loneliness and depression, and how she learns to find hope, laughter and her own voice in a world that's crumbling around her.
Notes
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Dialogue Books, an imprint of Little, Brown UK"--Title page verso.