num_pages: 148
description: Winner of Britain's Somerset Maugham award for fiction, The Cormorant is a marvelous and shattering first novel. It is the story of a young family that inherits a cottage in the Welsh mountains, and of the single bizarre condition of the bequest which threatens to shatter their newfound tranquility.
language: English
title: The Cormorant
titlecomplete: The Cormorant
genres: Fiction, Animals, Dark, Gothic, Birds, Horror, Adult, Novella, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 860
places: Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales, Snowdonia, Wales
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: St Martins Pr