​"Their eyes met and locked. Pulling his hand from his pocket, Neville waved. Once."

A faded seaside town in autumn is the backdrop for this elegiac story of a vulnerable boy and the adult who befriends him. Eight-year-old Neville, who counts stars and steps and grains of sand, is the first to notice that the red beach hut is occupied again. Abbott is on the run after a disturbing cyber attack. Their fleeting friendship, played out on the margins of sea and shore, brings the honesty and compassion both seek. But others watch, judge and misinterpret what they see while Abbot's past runs at their heels.

An evocative portrayal of two outsiders who find honest companionship and solace on a lonely beach. This novel is about the labels we give people who are different and the harm that ensues

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REVIEWS

With poetic, melodious prose, and with rhythms that illustrate Lynn Michell's assurance as a writer, the narrative moves back and forth between characters, as well as across the ebbs and flows of time and timelessness.- Joyce Goodman, author and Professor of History of Education

We are lucky to have writers like Lynn Michell to remind us that even here, even now, it is possible for the lonely and excluded to connect. It is rare to find such beauty and language as crisp and refreshing as the seaside it so powerfully evokes. - Maureen Freely, President of English PEN, novelist, translator and activist

From the first pages of this novel, Michell sets up an atmosphere of such convincing threat that the reader's expectations are on red alert. - Jenny Garrod. DURA. Dundee University Review of the Arts.

The prose is achingly beautiful...I doubt there can be a better, more poetic or lyrical writer when it comes to sea and shore and to the timelessness of being out on the water in a boat.. - Avril Joy, Costa and People's Prize winning author

Lynn Michell writes a beautifully innocent and endearing tale twisted by the tainted gaze of society's perverse darkness....She presents the reader with the delicate and fragile moments in which one reveals oneself to another and hopes that this vulnerability will be met with compassion."
- Isabelle Coy-Dibley for The Contemporary Small Press.