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THE FISH

Lloyd Jones

When the baby is born—in a shabby caravan at a beach campground—it's clear he is not like other babies. But the family will try hard to protect and love and accept him. Perhaps all the more to make up for letting his troubled mother down.

The young uncle grapples with his connection to the Fish. And as he tries to understand his family and its confusing secrets and shame, his sense of his own place in the world begins to crumble.

Lloyd Jones's unique lyrical style is mesmerising in this tender story of family bonds, both strained and strengthened by tragedy, and the redemptive power of writing.

Lloyd Jones was born in New Zealand. His best-known works include Mister Pip, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Book of Fame, winner of numerous literary awards, Hand Me Down World, A History of Silence and The Cage.
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Published 2022-03-01 by Text Publishing

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"New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones is a master storyteller " —Weekend Australian "A story of family, its tragedies and triumphs." —Age "Lloyd Jones's dreamlike and lyrical novel tells a tender story of family bonds, both strained and strengthened by tragedy, and re-states the redemptive power of writing and storytelling." —The Paperback Bookshop