The sound of whales
By: Kerr Thomson
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Chicken House Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Frome, Somerset
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781910002278
Subjects: Whales; Juvenile fiction; Human-animal relationships; Islands; Fiction; Mystery and detective stories
Description: Three children are spending their summer on a wild Scottish island. Fraser is desperate for adventure; Hayley is fed up she's even there; while Dunny spends his days staring out to sea. He hasn't said a word in years. But everything changes with the discovery of two bodies on the beach: a whale and a man. Fraser and Hayley see a mystery-adventure to be solved, but Dunny is inconsolable. And in the end, it will take someone who listens to the sea to put it right.
Notes: "Winner of the Times Children's Fiction Prize 2014."
Table of contents: title: "Winner of the Times Children's Fiction Prize 2014". -Three children are spending their summer on a wild Scottish island. Fraser is desperate for adventure; Hayley is fed up she's even there; while Dunny spends his days staring out to sea. He hasn't said a word in years. But everything changes with the discovery of two bodies on the beach: a whale and a man. Fraser and Hayley see a mystery-adventure to be solved, but Dunny is inconsolable. And in the end, it will take someone who listens to the sea to put it right.