Synopsis
Author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, Rathbone Folio Prize 2021 longlisted, Winner of the Costa Best Novel Award 2020 & Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020
August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else.
A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter's day two things change his life forever: his mother's ex-lover Cosmo shambles back into his life, and he discovers a rash on his arm which looks like frost. A rash which is frost.
As Cosmo raises questions about August's identity, August finds himself changing with the seasons, in a journey that takes him deep into his past and to the very centre of his soul...
Publisher information
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
- ISBN: 9781398514102
- Number of pages: 400
- Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 24 mm
- Languages: English
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Sun Dog
Sorry to say, I never enjoyed this book. I'm surprised I finished it.
Beautiful
A beautiful, evocative, magical book. One of my favourite reads.