Book

Cygnet : a novel

Butler, Season (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 0062870912
ISBN: 9780062870919
Physical Description: 224 pages ; 22 cm
print
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Dialogue Books, an imprint of Little, Brown UK.

Summary, etc.:

The Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island. Swan isn't just any island; it is home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed - an unwelcome reminder of the life they left behind, and one they want rid of. Cygnet is the story of a young woman battling against the thrashing waves of loneliness and depression, and how she learns to find hope, laughter and her own voice in a world that's crumbling around her.