- Title:
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Sea Hearts
- Written by:
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Margo Lanagan
- Read by:
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Paul English; Eloise Oxer
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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10 hours 21 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2013
- Available Date:
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November 01 2013
- Age Category:
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Young Adult (15+)
- ISBN:
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9781486202072
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Fantasy Fiction; Young Adult Fiction
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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Price
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Award winning author
Australian author
Winner Aurealis Award / Best Fantasy Novel 2012
Winner Aurealis Award / Best Young Adult Novel 2012
Winner Indie Book Awards / Young Adult 2013
Shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards / Young Adult 2013
Shortlisted Stella Prize 2013
Award-winning author Margo Lanagan weaves an extraordinary tale of desire and revenge, of loyalty, heartache and human weakness, and of the unforeseen consequences of all-consuming love.
On remote Rollrock Island, the sea-witch Misskaella discovers she can draw a girl from the heart of a seal. So, for a price, any man might buy himself a bride – an irresistibly enchanting sea-wife.
But what cost will be borne by the people of Rollrock ? the men, the women, the children ? once Misskaella sets her heart on doing such a thing?
'The elegance of Lanagan's sentences and the beauty of the prose coax us along even as she makes us bear witness to grief. Though her work is often described as young adult, Sea Hearts, like Lanagan's previous novel, Tender Morsels, is really a crossover book, suitable for adults, too.'
The Sydney Morning Herald
'[A] finely wrought, disturbing novel.'
Newtown Review of Books
'Lanagan is in a class of her own.'
The Weekend Australian