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(0)Carl Nixon
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the remains of the eldest child of the Chamberlain family, who disappeared in 1978, are found, questions arise when it is discovered that he lived for four years after his family went missing - and that he is buried with a tally stick, scored wood marking items of debt.