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The island of mists and miracles
Mas, Victoria2024
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In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Laboure was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign. Which is why she accepts a mission to go to a tiny community on an island just off the coast of Brittany. Her only companion there is a sceptical, chain-smoking older nun who just wants to be left in peace. On the island she meets Hugo, the son of a devout family who prefers to look for the meaning of life amid the stars; Madenn, a grandmother whose daughter was killed in a crash and who finds meaning in routine; Isaac, Madenn's grandson, an otherworldly teenager who doesn't fit in but who befriends Hugo, and Julia, a sickly child. If anyone needs a miracle, it is her. But it is not Sister Anne who receives a vision. Instead it is Isaac who is found on a promontory, transfixed, unable to utter more than the words 'I see'. The event soon becomes headline news and the world descends on the small island, opening old wounds and unleashing a chain of events none of them could have foreseen.
Main title:
The island of mists and miracles / Victoria Mas ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
Author:
Mas, Victoria, authorWynne, Frank, translator
Imprint:
London : Doubleday, 2024.
Collation:
212 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see..." -- Cover.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780857529374 (paperback)9780857529367 (hardback)
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
87509
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