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A BBC 'BETWEEN THE COVERS' BOOK CLUB PICK
'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell
'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision' - Colm Toibin
An Observer Best Debut of the Year 2024
It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Whale Fall as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved how WHALE SONG by Elizabeth O'Connor immersed me in a completely unknown world. Set on a remote Welsh island in the year 1938, the novel pulled me in with its windswept imagery and pulsing island rhythms. Ever present throughout the novel is the slow and steady decomposition of a massive baleen whale on the shore of the island, lending an ominous tone to every interaction.
Curious and intelligent by nature, 18-year-old Manod longs to see and experience life beyond the three square miles and 50 or so people who occupy her tiny island home. Yet she's deeply…
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