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Imprint: Doubleday
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Published: 20/02/2020
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ISBN: 9780857526519
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Length: 320 Pages
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RRP: £12.99
Three extraordinary lives intertwine across oceans and centuries.
On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a heartbroken young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does not know it, her decision will set in motion an astonishing chain of events. It will lead to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toymaker is on the cusp of a transformative invention, all the way to present-day Canada, where a journalist battling a terrible disease, drowning in her own lungs, risks everything for one last chance to live.
Moving effortlessly across time and space and taking inspiration from an incredible true story, Coming Up for Air is a bold, richly imagined novel about love, loss, and the immeasurable impact of every human life.
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Imprint: Doubleday
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Published: 20/02/2020
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ISBN: 9780857526519
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Length: 320 Pages
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RRP: £12.99
Reviews
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"An extraordinary, three-century braid of air and water: the way we float, the way we drown, the way we surface again against the odds."
Francis Spufford
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Sarah Leipciger is a novelist of wild landscapes, of rivers and coasts and forest. She captures the nature of solitude and stillness in a way that no other writer does. THE MOUNTAIN CAN WAIT was a wonder. COMING UP FOR AIR expands her range even further, exploring that eerie shoreline where land and ocean meet, where breathing becomes drowning, and life teeters on the very edge.
"Mark Haddon
