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Contemporary ThrillerWritten by Joanne Harris
Read by Anne Cater
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Mado has been adrift for too long. After ten years in Paris, she returns to the tiny Breton island where she grew up in the hope of reconciling with her estranged father. She finds life in her village of Les Salants to be increasingly desperate, with floods and coastal erosion gradually destroying the homes and livelihoods of the people.
Meanwhile the villagers’ old rivals in the island’s other settlement of La Housinniere are doing very well from tourist income, helped by their beach. Never one to be defeated, Mado enlists the help of enigmatic foreigner Rouget to revive the fortunes of the village through fair means or otherwise.
From the author of the bestselling CHOCOLAT comes a powerful novel of a hardy island community fighting the encroaching seas.