Publisher Description
In a bravura feat of storytelling, Mark Haddon calls upon narratives ancient and modern to tell the story of Angelica, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with her father. When a young man named Darius discovers their secret, he is forced to escape on a boat bound for the Mediterranean. To his surprise he finds himself travelling backwards over two thousand years to a world of pirates and shipwrecks, of plagues and miracles and angry gods. Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, Haddon conjures the worlds of Angelica and her would-be savior in thrilling fashion. As profound as it is entertaining, The Porpoise is a stirring and endlessly inventive novel from one of our finest storytellers.
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“This audiobook is a perfect storm in which the beautiful yet brutal powers of author Mark Haddon and narrator Tim McInnerny collide in an awesome display…Once you begin the voyage that is this novel, McInnerny’s gale-force narration will drive you on. Winner of the AudoFile Earphones Award.”
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About Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon is an author,
illustrator, and screenwriter. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, was published in
2003 and won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Book of the
Year Award, and is an international bestseller. Mark Haddon lives in Oxford,
England.
About Tim McInnerny
Tim McInnerny is
an English actor who, while known largely for his role as the comically foppish
Lord Percy in the BBC series Blackadder,
is primarily a dramatic stage actor who performed in such plays as Hamlet, Pravda, Othello, The Rocky Horror
Picture Show, and others.