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How to Build a Boat

Elaine Feeney

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#6141 of 8,085 books · #2605 in Fiction

Longlisted for the Booker Prize (2023).

How to Build a Boat was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 and shortlisted for Best Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2023. Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind these things are intimately linked. And at his new school, where all else is disorientating and overwhelming, he finds two people who might just be able to help him. How to Build a Boat is the story of how one boy and his mission transforms the lives of his teachers, Tess and Tadhg, and brings together a community. Written with tenderness and verve, it's about love, family and connection, the power of imagination, and how our greatest adventures never happen alone.

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Publisher
Harvill Secker
ISBN-13
9781529193954
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Grief and lossNeurodivergence and connectionCommunity and found family

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