Salt

Jeremy Page

first published 2007 Viking, Penguin Books, 2007 322 pages

In the dying months of the Second World War Goose, a strange, isolated woman who reads omens in the clouds and lives alone in a cottage on the salt marshes of Norfolk, England, finds a German soldier partially buried in the marsh mud. She takes him in, he gets her pregnant and then he flees (on a makeshift boat) while she's in labor. Daughter Lil, who grows up wild and strange, becomes the love interest of two brothe...

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Salt edition · 2008 · ISIS · 391 pages · 9780753179949
Salt edition · 2007 · Viking, Penguin Books · 322 pages · 9780670916580
Salt hardcover · 2007 · Viking Adult · 336 pages · 9780670038688

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