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Flying to Nowhere

John Fuller

Flying to Nowhere

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Flying to Nowhere won the Whitbread Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. John Fuller's first novel opens with the arrival of church agent Vane on a remote Welsh island where he is to investigate the disappearance of pilgrims visiting its sacred well. While Vane looks for clues and corpses the local Abbot seaches for the location of the soul. Magical and poetic, Flying to Nowhere awakens our secret hopes and fears and our need to believe in miracles.

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Publisher
Salamander
Year
1983
ISBN-13
9780807610879
Genre
FictionFantasy
Topics
Mystery and disappearanceFaith and the soulPilgrimage and sacred places

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