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dozylocal 's review for:
Not Forgetting the Whale
by John Ironmonger
This wasn't what I imagined at all (but, then, I've never been one for reading the blurb before diving in...)
I guess it's an Apocalyptic tale. Set mainly in the "now", a stranger arrives - washed up on the beach - and then a few days later, a whale - also stuck on the shore. During the course of the story we discover how the stranger came to be on a beach near a little English village in the middle of nowhere; and the significance of the whale; and why three generations later there is a "Festival of the Whale" held in this same little town every Christmas.
It's a hopeful tale. One that I hope would play out should the dominoes ever fall in a way that creates a similar situation on our planet. I wasn't too sure about the ending... But that might just be me :)
I guess it's an Apocalyptic tale. Set mainly in the "now", a stranger arrives - washed up on the beach - and then a few days later, a whale - also stuck on the shore. During the course of the story we discover how the stranger came to be on a beach near a little English village in the middle of nowhere; and the significance of the whale; and why three generations later there is a "Festival of the Whale" held in this same little town every Christmas.
It's a hopeful tale. One that I hope would play out should the dominoes ever fall in a way that creates a similar situation on our planet. I wasn't too sure about the ending... But that might just be me :)