The Sea is a Booker prize-winning novel by John Banville that explores memory, childhood, and loss. Max Morden, an art historian, returns to a seaside village where he spent a childhood holiday and confronts a distant trauma. The Grace family, with their worldly ease and candour, is unlike any adults he has met before, but it is his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinate him. What happens next haunts him for the rest of his years and shapes everything that follows.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

The Sea

The Sea is a remarkable, Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood, and loss by John Banville. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr. and Mrs. Grace, with their worldly ease and candor, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately. What happened next would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

Weight: 190g
Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035039043