There's something sweet and sad about ill-fated love affairs.
There's something sweet and sad about ill-fated love affairs.
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ORKNEY Amy Sackville Granta, £12.99 Reviewed by Theresa Munoz
Such is the premise of Orkney, the second novel of John Llewellyn Rhys prize winner Amy Sackville, who also wrote The Still Point. A university professor and his ex-student elope after a year of secret encounters. The young but bizarrely white-haired bride and her older groom head to her birthplace on Orkney. While on honeymoon, the couple become affected by the girl's personal issues: memories of her sea-faring father who abandoned her, and the girl's own obsession with the ocean, even though she can't swim.
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