From the Wreck - by Jane Rawson (Paperback)

Number of Pages: 272
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Age Range: Adult
Author: Jane Rawson
Language: English

About the Book

"When George Hills was pulled from the wreck of the steamship Admella, he carried with him memories of a disaster that claimed the lives of almost every other soul on board. Almost every other soul. Because as he clung onto the wreck, George wasn't alone: someone else--or something else--kept George warm and bound him to life. Why didn't he die, as so many others did, half-submerged in the freezing Southern Ocean? And what happened to his fellow survivor, the woman who seemed to vanish into thin air? George will live out the rest of his life obsessed with finding the answers to these questions. He will marry, father children, but never quite let go of the feeling that something else came out of the ocean that day, something that has been watching him ever since. The question of what this creature might want from him--his life? His first-born? To simply return home?--will pursue him, and call him back to the ocean again. Blending genres, perspectives, and worlds, Jane Rawson's From the Wreck is a chilling and tender story about how fiercely we cling to life, and how no one can survive on their own." --Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

When George Hills was pulled from the wreck of the steamship Admella, he carried with him memories of a disaster that claimed the lives of almost every other soul on board. Almost every other soul. Because as he clung onto the wreck, George wasn't alone: someone else--or something else--kept George warm and bound him to life. Why didn't he die, as so many others did, half-submerged in the freezing Southern Ocean? And what happened to his fellow survivor, the woman who seemed to vanish into thin air? George will live out the rest of his life obsessed with finding the answers to these questions. He will marry, father children, but never quite let go of the feeling that something else came out of the ocean that day, something that has been watching him ever since. The question of what this creature might want from him--his life? His first-born? To simply return home?--will pursue him, and call him back to the ocean again. Blending genres, perspectives, and worlds, Jane Rawson's From the Wreck is a chilling and tender story about how fiercely we cling to life, and how no one can survive on their own.

Review Quotes

"Absorbing . . . full of deep currents and lurking fears." --Adrian Tchaikovsky Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author, The Children of Time

"This strange story of love and loneliness, which explores how we all long to belong, is simply wonderful." --Daily Mail

About the Author

Jane Rawson is the author of A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists; a novella, Formaldehyde; and a non-fiction book, The Handbook: Surviving and Living with Climate Change. From the Wreck was the first novel to be nominated for both Australia's Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, which it won.