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Coastliners

By Joanne Harris

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| Paperback | 9780552998857

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On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities, the wealthy La Houssinière and the impoverished village of Les Salants, have fought for control of the island's only beach.
When Mado, a spirited local gir Continue

On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities, the wealthy La Houssinière and the impoverished village of Les Salants, have fought for control of the island's only beach.
When Mado, a spirited local girl, returns to Les Salants after a ten-year absence, she finds her home threatened, both by the tides and the machinations of a local entrepreneur. Worse, the community is suffering from an incurable loss of hope.
Mado is not so easily discouraged. Dogged by prejudice from the superstitious villagers, she is forced to enlist the help of Flynn, an attractive drifter. But Mado's attempts to transform the dying community have unforeseen consequences. As Les Salants returns slowly to life, so do past tragedies, including the terrible secret that still haunts Mado's father. And is Flynn really who he says he is?

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  • 'Coastliners' by Joanne Harris

    Swapping food for a marine theme, Harris sets her story on the sparsely populated Breton island of Le Devin, where local girl Mado returns after a ten-year absence. Instead of the happy home-coming she had expected, Mado finds that her ageing father, ... (read full critics)

    readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

  • Sheer Gaul

    Coastliners Joanne Harris 479pp, Doubleday, £12.99 Le Devin, an island so small that it is only a bicycle ride from one end to the other, consists of two feuding villages. At one end is the thriving La Houssinière, with its ferry port, fish-packing p ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • Unfinished business, disturbed waters

    It is never too late to finish what needs to be finished from the past. Temper with nature and it always has a subtle way of getting even... This book comes with these very motion of waves.

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