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The Offing – Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionA BBC Radio 2 Book Club PickA BBC Radio 4 `Book at Bedtime`An Observer Pick for 2019″What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness … Gorgeous” Max Porter, author of `Lanny`One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the former smuggling village of Robin Hood`s Bay. There he meets Dulcie, an eccentric, worldly, older woman who lives in a ramshackle cottage facing out to sea.Staying with Dulcie, Robert`s life opens into one of rich food, sea-swimming, sunburn and poetry. The two come from different worlds, yet as the summer months pass, they form an unlikely friendship that will profoundly alter their futures.

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