Sea

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'A masterly study of grief memory & love recollected'
- Professor John Sutherland Chair of Judges Man Booker Prize 2005. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday he is both escaping from a recent loss & confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr & Mrs Grace with their worldly ease & candour were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries the Grace twins Myles & Chloe who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately even intimately & what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years & shape everything that was to follow. 'A novel in which all of his remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art disquieting beautiful intelligent & in the end surprisingly offering consolation'
- Allan Massie Scotsman". ' You can smell & feel & see his world with extraordinary clarity. It is a work of art & I'll bet it will still be read & admired in seventy-five years'
- Rick Gekoski " The Times". ' Poetry seems to come easily to Banville. There is so much to applaud in this book that it deserves more than one reading'
- " Literary Review". 'A brilliant sensuous discombobulating novel'
- " Spectator"."