num_pages: 310
description: Cornwall 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone in a remote creek for nearly all her life. Recently she's taken to spending her days sitting on the steps of her caravan with a pair of binoculars. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what but she'll know it when she sees it. Freddy Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the war. He's agreed to fulfil a dying friend's last wish and hand-deliver a letter to the boy's father in Cornwall. But Freddy's journey doesn't go to plan and sees him literally wash up in Marvellous' creek broken in body and spirit. When Marvellous comes to his aid an unlikely friendship grows between the two. Can Freddy give Marvellous what she needs to say goodbye to the world and can she give him what he needs to go on?
language: English
title: A Year of Marvellous Ways
publisher: Headline Book Publishing