Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Author(s): Sara Baume
You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: Compassionate & Tolerant Owner. A person without other pets and without children under four. A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, 'too old for starting over, too young for giving up', and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast - but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts. As spring turns to summer, their relationship grows and intensifies, until a savage act forces them to abandon the precarious life they'd established, and take to the road. Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a wholly different kind of love story: a devastating portrait of loneliness, loss and friendship, and of the scars that are more than skin-deep. Written with tremendous empathy and insight, in lyrical language that surprises and delights, this is an extraordinary and heartbreaking debut by a major new talent.
Product Information
An extraordinary and heartbreaking debut by a major new talent.
General Fields
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- : Cornerstone
- : William Heinemann Ltd
- : 0.241
- : 01 March 2015
- : 216mm X 135mm
- : 01 June 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : 224
- : 615
- : Paperback
- : Sara Baume