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Flying to Nowhere

(1983)
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Awards
1983 Booker Prize (shortlist)

A modern Gothic novel with spiritual overtones that open out a set of classic novelistic quests. Set on a remote Welsh island during the Middle Ages, the tale is woven around two main characters - Vane an emissary sent by the Bishop to investigate the disapearance of a number of pilgrims to the islands miraculous well; and the abbot, who disects cadavers in a desperate attempt to find the human soul.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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