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By Kate Barker, Editorial Director, Viking

The Wake

The Wake by Jeremy Page

The Wake asks an impossible question: how do you recover from the death of your child? In a novel that is reminiscent of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love, Jeremy Page tells the heartbreaking story of Guy, whose life is torn apart when his small daughter is killed in a terrible accident. In an attempt to recover from his loss, Guy goes to live on a boat off the East Anglian coast, and begins to write a fictional diary in which his daughter is still alive. But the diary begins to take on an unpredictable life of its own...

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