The Fisherman's Gift
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Summary
A story of love, lost and found.
Winter, 1900. A little boy washes up on the beach of a small fishing village in Scotland, barely alive. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy's son, lost to the sea many years before.
When the village is snowed in, Dorothy agrees to look after the child until he can be returned home. But, as the past rises to meet the present, long-buried secrets in this tight-knit community start to come to light, like the snowdrops pushing up through the ice. And Dorothy finds herself thrown together again with the reclusive fisherman Joseph, after years of keeping their distance.
Bursting with tension and tenderness, this is an exquisite love story that delves into the griefs and hopes that can lie behind village gossip.
The sea grew higher and fiercer around her and now she heard their voices, the children of the waves,
Come away, come away
Reviews
As searing as a winter wind. In her debut novel, Julia Kelly takes us to the cliffside fishing village of Skerry, Scotland and walks us right up to the precipice of a mother’s grief. With perfect pacing and vivid prose, Kelly shows us not just what was but what could have been, and therein lies this book’s real gift.
Rachel Beanland, author of FLORENCE ADLER SWIMS FOREVER and THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE