The water-breather
earliest edition we have, 2002 Flamingo, 2002 295 pages
In this debut novel, Ben Faccini captures the agonies of a painfully sensitive young boy as he tries to minimise the terror he sees all around him. In the heat of the Umbrian and French countryside, we see a family unable to restore their happiness.
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