Doggerland Audiobook (Free)

‘The Road meets Waiting for Godot: powerful, unforgettable, exclusive’ Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time.

Doggerland is certainly a superbly gripping debut book about loneliness and wish, nature and success – set on an off-shore windfarm in the not-so-distant upcoming.

‘His father’s breathing had been loud in the small room. It acquired smelled smoky, or maybe more like dust. He had knotted and unknotted a strap over the handbag he was about Doggerland holding – he must have been leaving to go out to the farm that day time. ‘I’ll obtain out,’ he’d stated. ‘I’ll keep coming back for you, okay?’ The guy remembered that; acquired always remembered it. And, for a while, he’d thought it too.’

In the North Sea, definately not what remains of the coastline, a wind farm stretches for thousands of acres.

The Boy, who is no longer a really boy, as well as the Aged Guy, whose age is unguessable, are charged with its maintenance. They carry out their never-ending work, scoured by wind and sodium, as the waves move, dragging unusual shoals of flotsam through the turbine areas. Land is a memory.

So too is the Boy’s father, who done the turbines just before him, and disappeared. The boy continues to be sent by the Company to take his place, but the query of where he went and why is definitely one that the Old Man gives no answer.

As his companion dredges the ocean for lost things, the Boy sifts for the reality of his lacking father. Until 1 day, from the limitless water, an idea for escape emerges…

This beautifully crafted novel about loneliness and hope, nature and survival, is really as haunting since it is compelling – a very special debut indeed.