Inside the Whale
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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409086192
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Inside the Whale

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1 Sep 2010
Audiobook
3 Mar 2011
Paperback
1 May 2009
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Fizzing with eclectic characters and poignant imagery, Inside the Whale is a story to relish, and a book you'll want to recommend with passion to everyone you know.

Stephanie Stanford, recently widowed, must tell her family the truth. But the past is complicated and difficult to untangle. Meanwhile, Michael's memories are squashed into a shoebox (along with Queen Mathilda's Dickin Medal for Bravery - for pigeons) ready for his move to hospital. Michael has never been good at putting things into words; he's more comfortable with the click of Morse code. But Anna, a young healthcare assistant, has the patience - and rare tenderness - to eke out his story. And so he begins.
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409086192
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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About the author

Jennie Rooney

Jennie Rooney was born in Liverpool in 1980. She read History at the University of Cambridge and taught English in France before moving to London to work as a lawyer. Her first novel, Inside the Whale, was a Richard and Judy debut choice, Tesco Book Club selection and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. The Opposite of Falling was published in 2010 and Red Joan in 2013.

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Praise for Inside the Whale

A deeply affecting story ... Rooney confidently moves between two narrators and shifting times, vividly recreating Blitz-torn London and the Africa of the same period

Guardian

A work of a singularly outlandish and compassionate imagination...the novel has one shouting its praises to anybody who is within earshot

New Statesman

Add this to your list', 'this vivid story of lost love is tender, funny and hugely entertaining

Marie Claire

An elegant, funny and moving first novel... a wonderful, memorable musing on life, fate and love

Sunday Express

Fresh, funny and wise, balancing emotional turmoil with a vivid turn of phrase

Marie Claire

Funny, sad, unputdownable - an absolute tour de force

Katie Fforde

It is funny, deceptively ambitious, robustly detailed and extremely sad

The Sunday Times

Packed full of warm, spirited prose that captures the mood of doodlebug London, this is a total joy of a debut novel

Good Housekeeping

This heartfelt debut novel offers a witty twist on a WWII romance

Red

Wonderful debut novel ... Guaranteed to sweep you away

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