Drift
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  • Published: 4 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804990889
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $22.99

Drift

Winner of the Wales Book of the Year

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21 Apr 2022
Paperback
4 Jul 2023
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For fans of THE LAMPLIGHTERS and EXIT WEST, the hauntingly atmospheric English-language debut from the acclaimed, multi-award-winning Welsh author: a mesmerising love story between a young Welsh woman and a Syrian mapmaker.

**WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**
**WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**


'Truly beautiful and haunting, and an incredible feat of storytelling' DONAL RYAN

'A tender, unusual and gorgeously wrought love story' RACHEL JOYCE

'In times of war, Lewis finds resilience, redemption and hope...DRIFT feels perfectly judged' OBSERVER

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEBUT FROM THREE-TIME WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR CARYL LEWIS: A STORY OF LOVE, MAGIC AND THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF THE SEA.

Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery cove.

Hamza is a Syrian mapmaker, incarcerated in a military base a few miles up the coast.

A violent storm will bring these two lost souls together - but other forces will soon try to tear them apart...

Moving between the wild Welsh coast and war-torn Syria, Drift is a love story with a difference, a hypnotic tale of lost identity, the quest for home and the wondrous resilience of the human spirit.

'A truly magical and transformative novel. I loved it.' KIRSTY CAPES, author of CARELESS

  • Published: 4 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804990889
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Caryl Lewis

Caryl Lewis is a multi-award-winning Welsh novelist, children's writer, playwright and screenwriter. Her breakthrough novel Martha, Jac a Sianco (2004) is widely regarded as a modern classic of Welsh literature, and sits on the Welsh curriculum. The film adaptation - with a screenplay by Lewis herself - went on to win six Welsh BAFTAS and the Spirit of the Festival Award at the 2010 Celtic Media Festival. Lewis's other screenwriting work includes BBC/S4C thrillers Hinterland and Hidden. Lewis is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University, and lives with her family on a farm near Aberystwyth. Drift is her debut novel in the English language.

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Praise for Drift

A tender, unusual and gorgeously wrought love story that weaves the magic of folk lore, the wonder of the sea, and the depths of human cruelty. It moves between the worlds it inhabits like the finest piece of driftwood.

RACHEL JOYCE

A heart-wrenching, all at sea read -- you are going to want this on your radar.

ERICKA WALLER

A truly beautiful and haunting novel, and an incredible feat of storytelling

DONAL RYAN

Original and timely... [shows] the resilience of the human spirit, the tenacity and love that helps us survive.

IRISH TIMES

A truly magical and transformative novel. I loved it.

Kirsty Capes

In times of war, Lewis finds resilience, redemption and hope...DRIFT feels perfectly judged

OBSERVER

Captivating from the off

Huw Stephens, BBC Front Row
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