- Paperback: 436 pages
- Publisher: Upfront Publishing (1 July 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 184426470X
- ISBN-13: 978-1844264704
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,214,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'She looks out across the threatening sea at the fragile spindrift driven relentlessly across its boiling surface, driven as surely as she herself was, and by forces just as powerful and mysterious...' Jennifer Hawker, a child of the west country coast, haunted by loss and sudden grief.... a solitary, secretive dreamer, who finds a strange, sustaining alliance with a loved yet dangerous friend, the sea. A girl betrayed by deception and brutality who becomes a striking and enigmatic woman, touched by fame - but when dark consequences of that fame threaten to eclipse her existence she must finally face her own power in a stark and explosive confrontation.
About the Author
Michael Goodall was born near Portsmouth and from childhood has always had a powerful bond with the sea.
Married with one daughter, he worked in journalism and, for many years, in fine and contemporary art. He now lives and writes in Dorset. A pioneer `house-dad' in the 1980's he wrote a dozen novels, subsequently discarded, as `my apprenticeship, finding my own voice,' before completing The Spindrifter.
For him writing is like method acting behind closed doors - `If I don't believe in what I am doing, and experience it in some way, I can't expect readers to. It wouldn't be genuine, authentic. You have to have something to say and a way of saying it that is absolutely one's own - and that's the hard part.'
The Spindrifter is a novel with an intriguing, complex and strong-minded heroine. It is about self-determination and freedom, about attachment to place and about deceit and devastatingly deceptive appearances. Not least, it is about the sea and dreams.
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I couldn't put it down,
By Lisa "Lisa" (Wimborne, Dorset) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Spindrifter (Paperback)
I didn't know what to expect from this book but The Spindrifter[ASIN:184426470X The Spindrifter]] is spell-binding. I couldn't put it down. It made me laugh, cry and everything in between.It starts with the heroine as a child and I could really feel her loneliness..I could just picture her listening to the radio alone. I can't read another book for a while. I didn't want it to end but wanted to know the end. You know there is not something quite right about Kit but not sure what.....waiting for it. My Mum and Dad read it; my Dad doesn't read books much but they took in on holiday and rushed back to the hotel each night to read a bit more, and went up early to finish it. It's a real page turner.Lisa
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