The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yuko Mishima

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yuko MishimaA band of savage thirteen year old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part and the

and this is their (true) story

In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett

Emma runs into an old friend

And like most of humanity

filled with love

'Engrossing

And it is almost impossible to read without laughing

with devastating consequences

' Marian KeyesA witty and warm debut novel from a young Irish writer

Do all the right things

author of The Tenderness of Wolves

from Waterloo to Zanzibar