The Book of Speculation

by Erika Swyler

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Simon Watson lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the edge of a cliff that is slowly crumbling into the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a travelling carnival and seldom calls.

On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious book from an antiquarian bookseller; it has been sent to him because it is inscribed with the name Verona Bonn, Simon's grandmother. The book tells the story of two doomed lovers...Read more
  • ISBN10 1782397752
  • ISBN13 9781782397755
  • Publish Date 2 July 2015 (first published 23 June 2015)
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Atlantic Books
  • Imprint Corvus
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 352
  • Language English