Review
'A compelling literary voice from Native Canada ... her talent is considerable' Julie Wheelwright, INDEPENDENT 'An absorbing, imaginative work' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Beautifully written and haunting, this is an impressive debut' TIMES METRO 'Accomplished ... we sense the author urging us towards the perceptiveness that has enabled her to create a graceful and impressive book' TLS
Product Description
Growing up a tough, wild tomboy, swimming, fighting and fishing in the remote Native village of Kitamaat, where the land slips into the green ocean on the northern edge of the world and strange things bubble below the surface, Lisa Marie has always been different. Visited by ghosts and shapeshifters, tormented by premonitions, she can't escape the sense that something terrible is waiting for her at the end of the line. Then one day her little brother Jimmy goes missing at sea, and as Lisa Marie sits waiting for news, aged nineteen but feeling a hundred, she sorts through the blackest secrets of her damaged life, in search of hope. Wild, sensuous and terrifying, MONKEY BEACH binds our most primal fears to an exquisitely haunting landscape in an unforgettable modern ghost story.
