Whale Fall TPB

It is 1938 and for a young woman, Manod, just turned eighteen, 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. Rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves have
villagers steeling themselves for what’s to come. The empty houses remind them of
men the last Great War took and now they see bad omens everywhere.

When two strangers from the mainland arrive on a white boat, keen to study the
island’s people, Manod sees in them a rare moment of opportunity to leave the island
and discover a life for herself. But, as she guides them across the island’s wild
landscape and becomes entangled in their relationship, the outside world begins to
look terrifyingly out of reach.

Elizabeth O'Connor's beautiful, devastating debut, tells a story of longing and
betrayal set against the backdrop of a world in great tumult.