A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail. So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler’s hand, and ghost women with lampreys’ teeth drag a man to hell – and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Author Mark Haddon Published by Vintage Classics ISBN 9781529979701 EAN 9781529979701 Bic Code FBA|DDA|FXC|FYV|FS Cover Paperback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":97878,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4000],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95694","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fiction","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n