The Virgin and the Whale: A Love Story

By Carl Nixon

Book Overview

A touching, clever novel about stories, about using them to create your own identity, and about the way they can forge bonds of love.

It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, 'presumed dead'. She keeps him alive for their four-year-old son, Jack, by telling the story of a man she calls The Balloonist, who went away in a hot-air balloon and has adventures in exotic countries.

When she is asked to nurse a returned soldier whose head injury has reduced him to an animal-like state with no memory, Elizabeth starts telling her stories to him. It is through them that she manages to engage his interest and offer him a new life ... in more ways than one.

• Format: MP3 CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CW59HN9L
• ISBN13: 9798874636173
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Tantor Audio