Salt

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` These were the nights when the German bombers growled through the sky, their bellies full with steel & cordite. When the moon was low their dark shapes & still darker shadows came over the coast. Several hours later they`d return again, wearily, lighter in weight, fewer in number, dropping the occasional bomb on the forgotten land of creeks & channels beneath them. On one of those nights it all began for me
- war, after all, starts many things, & even though I wasn`t born for another twenty-five years, my story began there.` It is May 1945 & as church bells ring out Victory in Europe over the Norfolk saltmarshes, Goose`s daughter Lil is born. But as Lil enters Goose`s world, her father leaves it, in a makeshift boat bound
- or so the story goes
- for Germany, his home. Forty years later it is Lil`s son, Pip, who begins to make sense of his family`s fragmented history. Who was his grandfather, who fell from the sky into Goose`s life & then disappeared as suddenly as he came? What was the truth of his mother, Lil, who lived & lost her way between the creeks & the samphire? & what does it all mean for Pip, whose heritage of flood, fireworks, fish & clouds, has left him ill-prepared for life beyond the marshes?