Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781804990889
Published: May 2023
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 240
Format: Paperback
RRP 275.00

Drift

Caryl Lewis

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**WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**
**WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**


'Truly beautiful and haunting, and an incredible feat of storytelling' DONAL RYAN

'A tender, unusual and gorgeously wrought love story' RACHEL JOYCE

'In times of war, Lewis finds resilience, redemption and hope...DRIFT feels perfectly judged' OBSERVER

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEBUT FROM THREE-TIME WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR CARYL LEWIS: A STORY OF LOVE, MAGIC AND THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF THE SEA.

Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery cove.

Hamza is a Syrian mapmaker, incarcerated in a military base a few miles up the...

About the Author

Caryl Lewis

Caryl Lewis

Caryl Lewis is a multi-award-winning Welsh novelist, children’s writer, playwright and screenwriter. Her breakthrough novel Martha, Jac a Sianco is widely regarded as a modern classic of Welsh literature, and sits on the Welsh curriculum. The film adaptation – with a screenplay by Caryl herself – won six Welsh BAFTAS. Her other screenwriting work includes BBC/S4C thrillers Hinterland and Hidden. In 2023, she won the Wales Book of the Year Award for the third time for her debut English novel Drift, making her the first writer ever to have won in both languages. She is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University, and lives with her family on a farm near Aberystwyth.

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