Beside the Sea (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Beside the Sea A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from a cold and uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys.
Full description- Publisher: Peirene Press Ltd
- Published: 13 January 2010
- Format: Paperback 121 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780956284020 ISBN 10: 0956284027
- Sales rank: 87,840
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Full description for Beside the Sea
A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from a cold and uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys. This is a haunting and thought-provoking story about how a mother's love for her children can be more dangerous than the dark world she is seeking to keep at bay. Veronique Olmi handles an aspect of motherhood we all too often deny. She depicts a woman's fear of releasing her children into the world. The simple first person narrative achieves an extraordianry level of poetry and inner truth. The French literary bestseller, first published in 2001, has been translated into all major European languages and is now for the first time available in English.
