Author: Shakespeare, Nicholas.
Title: Secrets of the Sea.
Description: London Vintage / Random House, 2008. Reprint ed. Paperback thick trade, very good plus condition, minimal edgewear. 486 pp. This Australian novel by British writer is about an 11-year-old boy named Alex who is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania after the death of his parents in a car crash. He is sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia 12 years later, the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young woman whose life has been marked by tragedy, persuade him to stay. They marry, and he finds himself drawn into the eccentric, often hilarious dynamics of island life. ISBN: 9780099507772

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