Seek The Singing Fish Format:Paperback

Seek The Singing Fish Format:PaperbackGrowing up in the lagoon town of Batticaloa, a young girl, with an unquenchable curiosity and love of the natural world, is entangled in the trauma and turmoil of the Sri Lankan civil war. Uprooted from everything she holds dear, tragedy and betrayal set in motion an unforgettable odyssey. Torn from east to west, struggling with what it means to belong, she desperately seeks a way home to the land of the singing fish.

that I wanted to read them again and again

with one written originally in English

In the spring of 1965

save the Geats from being wiped off the map

as I see it

Priscilla is labelled an ‘Oreo’: too white for her Black classmates

we see repeatedly in these poems how she provides a glorious explosion of the senses – sight and touch in particular

And why does nobody go in or out of the Faulkners’ house

framed by a mind-bendingly original concept that no other writer working today could – or indeed would – have concocted

no one in Britain is writing better crime fiction

sensitive novel is insidiously shocking

multifaceted narrative that plays around with shifting time and perception