# The Porpoise

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- Authors: [Mark Haddon](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-haddon)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-15-2997-970-1
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2026-03-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Shakespeare’s Pericles is transformed by Mark Haddon into a vivid, breathtaking adventure that zooms between antiquity and the present day. 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. ‘Just downright brilliant... a transcendent, transporting experience’ Observer ‘A full-throttle blast of storytelling mastery’ Max Porter SHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies. Power-hungry media moguls. This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before: nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.