Salt
By: Jeremy Page.
Publisher: Viking, Penguin Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780670916580
Subjects: Families -- Fiction; Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction; Germans -- England -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "It is the summer of 1945 in Norfolk, England, and when Goose comes upon a German soldier buried neck deep in the mud of a local salt marsh, she pulls him out and brings him home. Nine months later, he vanishes in a makeshift boat, leaving Goose behind with a newborn daughter, Lil. During Lil's strange and isolated childhood, her mother teaches her to read the clouds above the marshes, and she spends most of her days dreaming of the future. But when she becomes the object of two brothers' desire, her life takes a tragic turn." "Fifteen years later, it is Lil's son Pip who attempts to make sense of his family's intriguing history. Pip, who has never uttered a word, is alone in his mute world until he becomes beguiled by the lovely flame-haired Elsie, who lives nearby. Pip comes of age among the marshes like the generations before him - but will the misfortune of his family's past repeat itself through him?" "Salt is a family saga that explores the relationship between people and the landscape in which they live."--BOOK JACKET.