# The Porpoise

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- Authors: [Mark Haddon](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-haddon)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-15-2911-070-8
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2020-04-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘ Just downright brilliant ... a transcendent, transporting experience ’ Observer A motherless girl grows up in isolated luxury, hidden from the world by her wealthy father. She believes their life together is normal – but as time passes, she has a growing sense that something between them is very wrong. She cannot escape, so she seeks solace in her books. Her favourite tales are those that conjure ancient worlds – of angry gods and heroic mortals, one of whom will some day come to her rescue. Soon, she will forget where the page ends and her mind begins. ‘A full-throttle blast of storytelling mastery’ Max Porter