This, My Second Life: An emotional and powerful debut novel
by Patrick Charnley
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Beautifully written, spare and elegiac, a literary debut novel set in Cornwall in which a young man comes to terms with a life-changing injury. After a near-death experience and life-changing injury, twenty-year-old Jago Trevarno goes to stay with his uncle on his small coastal farm a few miles from St Ives in Cornwall.Tags
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