TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gruen,Sara
TI  - At the water's edge: a novel 
SN  - 9781742379883
AV  - PS3607.R696 A94 2015
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Crows Nest, New South Wales
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Loch Ness monster
KW  - Socialites
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1944, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army Colonel who is already ashamed of his colour-blind son's inability to serve in WWII. To Maddie's horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favour (and generosity) is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at: he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster and when he finds it he will restore his father's name and return to his father's good graces. n January 1945 they hitch a ride on a ship across the Atlantic while the war is still raging all around them. And Maddie, now alone and virtually abandoned in a foreign country, must begin to work out who she is and what she wants - the vacuous life she left behind or something more real? What she discovers - about the larger world and about herself - opens her eyes not only to the dark forces that exist around her but to the beauty and surprising possibilities of life
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