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The Known and Unknown Sea

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NovelThis haunting and comic fable from the author of The Sleepwalkers' Ball is a beautiful and heartbreaking journey through memory, loss and imagination.Rumour and suspicion engulf an eerily fog-bound town as its residents begin to receive tickets promising passage across the mist-shrouded ba...

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ISBN: 978-1-909776-02-9 978-1-909776-03-6
Published: Manchester Cillian Press 2014
Online Access: https://cillianpress.co.uk/cillian-titles/theknownandunknownsea/
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