WINNER BOOKER PRIZE 2005
The brilliant new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of 'Shroud' and 'The Book Of Evidence', John Banville is, without question, one of the greatest novelists writing in the English language today.
When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.
The Grace family appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Drawn to the Grace twins, Chloe and Myles, Max soon finds himself entangled in their lives, which are as unsettling as they are seductive. What ensues will haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that is to follow.
Utterly compelling, profoundly moving and illuminating, 'The Sea' is quite possibly the best novel John Banville has ever written.
