The Virgin & the Whale: A Love Story
Author(s): Carl Nixon
A touching, clever novel about stories, about using them to create your own identity, and about the way they can forge bonds of love. It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, 'presumed dead'. She keeps him alive for their four-year-old son, Jack, by telling the story of a man she calls The Balloonist, who went away in a hot-air balloon and has adventures in exotic countries. When she is asked to nurse a returned soldier whose head injury has reduced him to an animal-like state with no memory, Elizabeth starts telling stories to him. It is through them that she manages to engage his interest and offer him a new life ...in more ways than one.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Random House
- : Vintage
- : 01 August 2013
- : 234mm x 153mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Carl Nixon
- : Paperback
- : 1st Edition
- : very good
- : 261