Book 1999
Everything you need
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- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Teenage girls
- Loneliness
- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters
- Authors
- Islands
- New York Times reviewed
- Fiction, psychological
Nathan Staples is a man in pain: consumed by loathing and love in roughly equal measure. He is sustained only by his devotion to his estranged wife and their teenage daughter, who thinks he's dead having not seen him for 15 years. His path to grace is strewn with obstacles and challenges.