Inside the Whale
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| Book: | Inside the Whale |
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| Author: | Jennie Rooney |
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| Publisher: | Chatto & Windus |
Stephanie Sandford, recently widowed, must tell her family the truth. But the past is indistinct and it’s complicated. There was Mum, who married the wrong Reg. And there was the young man from the dairy who gave Stevie swimming lessons before he broke her heart. War came, and four years were spent chopping root vegetables in the canteen of the Sun Pat peanut factory on the Old Kent Road. It’s not until she’s under an umbrella with Jonathan—dark hair and seaweed eyes—that Stevie finally starts to sense safety.
Meanwhile, Michael Royston’s memories are squashed into a shoebox, ready for his move into the hospital. Years ago he trained military carrier pigeons for the Royal Corps of Signals in Cairo so it’s ironic that his own homecoming has taken a lifetime. Michael has never been good at putting things into words; he’s more comfortable with the click of Morse code. But Anna, a young healthcare assistant, has the patience—and rare tenderness—to eke out his story. And so he begins.
Bright new talent, Jennie Rooney, has an unerring sense of the big things that hold us together and the small things that prove our undoing. Inside the Whale is a dazzling celebration of the bright joys, hard losses and deep contentments borne by two eccentric families as the twentieth century unfolds.
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