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*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2025*
'A huge talent' HILARY MANTEL
'A magnificent writer' DOUGLAS STUART
'One of the finest novelists of his generation' THE TIMES
Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa's trade as a…
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1 author picked Seascraper as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Wood writes Thomas Flett's world — the horse and cart, the shrimp trawling, the grey tides of Longferry — with such atmospheric precision that you feel you're watching a way of life disappear in real time, and the beauty is that he never announces the elegy, he just lets you live inside it.
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