The Wave
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"Tonight they'll share their darkest secrets, but tomorrow, there is no escape...An earthquake deep in the ocean is sending a tsunami towards the Cornish coast with no early warning and little time for escape. With its poor infrastructure and isolation, many people won't get away in time. As the terrifying reality of this hits home, one young woman posts a message on Facebook. `With nowhere to run to, I'm heading to my favourite beach to watch the sunset, who wants to join me?' A small group of people head towards the beach, each with their own stories and their own secrets and as they come together in the dying light of the Cornish sunset, they will discover something much more powerful than they thought possible. But there is no escaping the dawn, the wave is coming.."--Publisher.
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Simply Amazing. This book takes a couple of different narrative structure stylings that I'd never seen used before and makes them work very well. For one, the progression is based on the Catholic Night Prayers. For two, rather than just a couple of narrators, we get seven separate yet linked narrators. As each person tells their own story, we see the various intersections with each of the other characters, sometimes jumping back and forth time wise a bit to show what one character was doing when the other character saw them at a given location. Even better for this reader personally was finishing the book at sunrise on Summer Solstice 2019 at the beach at Jacksonville Beach, FL - one of the regions that would have faced the same wave that the people in this book face were it real. Excellent book, very much looking forward to more from this author. Very much recommended.
