{"product_id":"the-north-shore-9780349727301","title":"The North Shore","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e''\u003cb\u003eBrilliant: singular, unsettling and mutative\u003c\/b\u003e'' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of \u003ci\u003eTHE LEVIATHAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eThe strange events of this story have haunted me\u003c\/b\u003e'' NAOMI BOOTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eA beautiful, moving, unexpected novel . . . I will carry it with me for a long time\u003c\/b\u003e'' ELVIA WILK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eA queer, oneiric, watery fable in which narrative form and logic are in constant ?ux\u003c\/b\u003e'' \u003ci\u003eTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou don''t pass through the North Shore on the way to anywhere else: it is the end of the road. The village was like many along that wild coast; inhabited by those who had always lived there, and always would.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe residents know nature''s tempestuous ways. They batten down the hatches when the storms rip through, and they clear the debris together in the aftermath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the morning after one particularly ferocious storm, something is washed up on the beach that has never appeared before. Something that opens the question of what nature, and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrilliant: singular, unsettling and mutative\u003c\/b\u003e, combining the mythical and the grotesque with sublime writing and an intense fascination with the natural world -- Rosie Andrews, bestselling author of THE LEVIATHAN\u003cbr\u003eTHE NORTH SHORE is \u003cb\u003ea haunting evocation of place\u003c\/b\u003e told by those who rightly love and fear it. An \u003cb\u003eenticing\u003c\/b\u003e, wrack-like tangle of myth, mystery and the power of the sea and its stories. -- Kiran Millwood Hargrave\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe North Shore\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003econjures the atmosphere of the Norfolk coast with unnerving beauty\u003c\/b\u003e. This is an unusual and enthralling novel: the strange events of this story have haunted me. -- Naomi Booth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA mysterious and compelling tale\u003c\/b\u003e, I really enjoyed it. Landscape and memory shift as though colluding in unsettling the past. Myth competes with truth for attention. The land is a medium for holding or expressing powers we cannot hope to understand. -- Lulu Allison\u003cbr\u003eAs eerie, bleak and magical as the Norfolk coast itself. \u003cb\u003eAn intriguing narrative of twists and turns, stories and myths, truth and fable.\u003c\/b\u003e Tufnell has captured and distilled the very nature of nostalgia, transforming it into a \u003cb\u003egripping\u003c\/b\u003e piece of work that pulls you in, and won't let you go -- Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City\u003cbr\u003eThis is a\u003cb\u003e beautiful, moving, unexpected \u003c\/b\u003enovel. Its smoothness and readability bely its depth and complexity, with \u003cb\u003enarratives so seamlessly interwoven \u003c\/b\u003ethat I can't find the edges. I've learned many things from \u003ci\u003eThe North Shore\u003c\/i\u003e and will carry it with me for a long time -- Elvia Wilk\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733692821847,"sku":"9780349727301","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349727301.jpg?v=1720001248","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-north-shore-9780349727301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}