By the Shore

by Galaxy Craze (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $14.40

  May lives by the shore in a fomer girl's school that her mother has turned into a guest house. May is twelve and she and her mother and brother have come from London to live by the sea. May observes the adults and their complicated games with an eye unmisted by sentimentality, and struggles to find solid ground for herself. In this dazzling first novel Galaxy Craze has created a character as convincing as Paddy Clarke, a milieu as finely drawn as that of Hideous Kinky.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $11.43

  Twelve-year-old May lives with her younger brother and her mother, Lucy, in a big house by the sea. Lucy is running it as a guesthouse having left behind a failed marriage in London. In the weeks before Christmas, a writer and his glamorous editor arrive, shortly followed by May's father and all the delicate new possibilities stirring in their lives are threatened. BY THE SHORE is May's story of those weeks, of the apparantly simple concerns of her own life and of the bigger, more complex events around her. Destined to become a classic, BY THE SHORE is a novel of childhood and all the subtleties of a young girl's understanding, all the terrors, the embarrassments and all the longings.