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Title: Cygnet
Author: BUTLER SEASON
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 04/04/2019
Imprint: DIALOGUE PRESS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
‘Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth – and, in its quiet way, the end of the world’ – China Mieville
The Kid doesn’t know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island.
Swan isn’t just any island; it is home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid’s arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed – an unwelcome reminder of the life they left behind, and one they want rid of.
CYGNET is the story of a young woman battling against the thrashing waves of loneliness and depression, and how she learns to find hope, laughter and her own voice in a world that’s crumbling around her.
‘A sad, funny, highly original novel. Not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by a first-person voice as the one Season Butler creates in CYGNET’ Blake Morrison, author of THINGS MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME
ISBN: 9780349700311
Dimension: 216mm X 135mm
Pages: 256