A Poor Season for Whales
- Authors
- Michiel Heyns
- Publisher
- Jonathan Ball Publishers
- ISBN
- 9781776190232
- Date
- 2020-02-18
- Size
- 0.67 MB
- Lang
- en
'A Poor Season for Whales is pitch-perfect, a clever, bitingly funny novel. It had me riveted.' Finuala Dowling, author of Okay, Okay, Okay
Margaret Crowley, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly fifty-six years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. It was therefore hardly to be foreseen that in her fifty-sixth year she would kill a man with a kitchen knife.
When, after twenty-six years of marriage, Margaret Crowley's husband leaves her for a younger man, she has to rethink her priorities and consider her options: as a free agent, with no 'appurtenances', how best to turn that freedom into a meaningful future rather than a mulling over the past? Opting to leave behind her support system of family and friends, she moves to a seaside town with her dog, Benjy, intent upon a simple, uncluttered existence. But simplicity,...