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A Girl Called Flotsam
- Author
- John Tagholm
- Narrator
- Charlie Norfolk
- Publisher
- SAGA Egmont
- Publish Date
- 14 July 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
He shook his head. "You've decided it's a girl?"
She looked at the skull and thought of it washing backwards and forwards in the dirty water of the Thames until coming to rest in sight of tip of the Isle of Dogs under the gaze of the grandiose buildings of Greenwich.
"We'll call her Flotsam," she said.
Home truths are always the hardest.
Beatrice Palmenter is 36, a successful filmmaker. And discontent. She is about to make two journeys, one back a thousand years to the world of the Anglo Saxons, the other to wartime France.
It begins when she holds a small skull in the palm of her hand on the bleak foreshore of the River Thames. It continues as she travels to Paris and Marseille on the trail of the world famous restaurateur Joseph Troumeg. Along the way she meets three extraordinary women and archaeologist Harry Wesley. And discovers some home truths about herself.
A Girl Called Flotsam is a captivating love story and a compelling mystery about the elusiveness of history and the messages, true and false, it leaves behind.
For fans of William Boyd, Joanne Harris and Sebastian Faulks.
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Details
- Author
- John Tagholm
- Narrator
- Charlie Norfolk
- Duration
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 July 2022
- ISBN
- 9788728280621
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- SAGA Egmont
- Genre
- Modern & contemporary fiction, Historical adventure fiction, Science fiction: time travel, Historical romance
Synopsis
"Do you have a name for her?" she asked.He shook his head. "You've decided it's a girl?"She looked at the skull and thought of it washing backwards and forwards in the dirty water of the Thames until coming to rest in sight of tip of the Isle of Dogs under the gaze of the grandiose buildings of Greenwich."We'll call her Flotsam," she said. Home truths are always the hardest.Beatrice Palmenter is 36, a successful filmmaker. And discontent. She is about to make two journeys, one back a thousand years to the world of the Anglo Saxons, the other to wartime France.It begins when she holds a small skull in the palm of her hand on the bleak foreshore of the River Thames. It continues as she travels to Paris and Marseille on the trail of the world famous restaurateur Joseph Troumeg. Along the way she meets three extraordinary women and archaeologist Harry Wesley. And discovers some home truths about herself.A Girl Called Flotsam is a captivating love story and a compelling mystery about the elusiveness of history and the messages, true and false, it leaves behind.For fans of William Boyd, Joanne Harris and Sebastian Faulks.-
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