| Title | : | The Virgin and the Whale |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Carl Nixon |
| Release | : | 2013-09-06 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books, Romance, Historical Fiction |
| Size | : | 791050 |
| A touching, clever novel about stories, about using them to create your own identity, and about the way they can forge bonds of love. It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, ‘presumed dead’. She keeps him alive for their four-year-old son, Jack, by telling the story of a man she calls The Balloonist, who went away in a hot-air balloon and has adventures in exotic countries. When she is asked to nurse a returned soldier whose head injury has reduced him to an animal-like state with no memory, Elizabeth starts telling her stories to him. It is through them that she manages to engage his interest and offer him a new life . . . in more ways than one. |
