Calabash
by Christopher Fowler
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Kay Goodwin is a 16-year-old boy with a smart mouth and too much imagination. Marooned in the rundown seaside resort of Cole Bay, his life is a horrible comedy of errors that has trapped him in the country's most dismal place at the worst possible time - the early '70s. He dreams of escaping the crumbling pier and the grumbling pensioners, of finding a place where he is appreciated, but it's the one thing he can't do. Until he discovers a faraway land with characters who are impossibly show more exotic, but strangely familiar. In the kingdom of Calabash he can have everything he's ever wanted from life. There's only one small problem. Calabash doesn't actually exist. In an England that's still hungover from the 60s, everyone in Cole Bay expects him to conform, but Kay is prepared to risk everything to find out what makes him different, what his life really holds, and what will happen if he believes in the impossible... Christopher Fowler's warm-hearted new novel takes place at the most painful point of growing up, where dreams are broken but where everyone gets one last chance to be free. show lessTags
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Christopher Fowler was born in Greenwich, London, England in 1953. He is the author of the Bryant and May Mystery series, Rune, and Old Devil Moon, which won the Edge Hill Audience Prize in 2008. He also won the British Fantasy Society Award for best novella for Breathe in 2005. He also won The Dagger in the Library Award 2015 for his body of show more work. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Dedication
- For Jim
- First words
- One minute past midnight.
- Blurbers
- Harris, Joanne
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