Whale Fall Av Elizabeth O'Connor

<p>It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself. The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the island's shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villagers steeling themselves for what&rsquo;s to come. Empty houses remind them of the men taken by the Great War, and of the difficulty of building a life in the island's harsh, salt-stung landscape.<br><br>When two anthropologists from the mainland arrive, Manod sees in them a rare moment of opportunity to leave the island and discover the life she has been searching for. But, as she guides them across the island&rsquo;s cliffs, she becomes entangled in their relationship, and her imagined future begins to seem desperately out of reach.<br><br><b>Elizabeth O&rsquo;Connor&rsquo;s beautiful, devastating debut <i>Whale Fall</i> tells a story of longing and betrayal set against the backdrop of a world on the edge of great tumult.</b></p>