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The Virgin and the Whale by Carl Nixon

ISBN: 9781775533757 PUBLISHER: Random House New Zealand Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 264 PUBLICATION DATE: 6.09.2013 DIMENSIONS: 234mmX153mm 345grams

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 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 her 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.

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