The porpoise : a novel

Author

Mark Haddon

Call Number

• FICTION HADD (CEN, WSQ)

Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Doubleday, [2019]

Physical Description

305 pages ; 25 cm

Summary

A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail? So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell--and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.

Contents

• The flight
• The child
• The porpoise
• The family
• The serpent
• The hunt
• The storm.