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Inside the Whale
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  • Published: 1 May 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099523574
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $19.99

Inside the Whale

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1 Sept 2010
Audiobook
3 Mar 2011
Paperback
1 May 2009
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Fizzing with eclectic characters and poignant imagery, Inside the Whale is a story to relish, and a book you'll want to recommend with passion to everyone you know.

Stephanie Stanford, recently widowed, must tell her family the truth. But the past is complicated and difficult to untangle. Meanwhile, Michael's memories are squashed into a shoebox (along with Queen Mathilda's Dickin Medal for Bravery - for pigeons) ready for his move to hospital. Michael has never been good at putting things into words; he's more comfortable with the click of Morse code. But Anna, a young healthcare assistant, has the patience - and rare tenderness - to eke out his story. And so he begins.
  • Published: 1 May 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099523574
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the authors

Jennie Rooney

Jennie Rooney was born in Liverpool in 1980. She read History at the University of Cambridge and taught English in France before moving to London to work as a lawyer. Her first novel, Inside the Whale, was a Richard and Judy debut choice, Tesco Book Club selection and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. The Opposite of Falling was published in 2010 and Red Joan in 2013.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

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Praise for Inside the Whale

Wonderful debut novel ... Guaranteed to sweep you away

Bella

This heartfelt debut novel offers a witty twist on a WWII romance

Red

Funny, sad, unputdownable - an absolute tour de force

Katie Fforde

An elegant, funny and moving first novel... a wonderful, memorable musing on life, fate and love

Sunday Express

A deeply affecting story ... Rooney confidently moves between two narrators and shifting times, vividly recreating Blitz-torn London and the Africa of the same period

Guardian

It is funny, deceptively ambitious, robustly detailed and extremely sad

The Sunday Times

Add this to your list', 'this vivid story of lost love is tender, funny and hugely entertaining

Marie Claire

Fresh, funny and wise, balancing emotional turmoil with a vivid turn of phrase

Marie Claire

Packed full of warm, spirited prose that captures the mood of doodlebug London, this is a total joy of a debut novel

Good Housekeeping

A work of a singularly outlandish and compassionate imagination...the novel has one shouting its praises to anybody who is within earshot

New Statesman