A timeless portrait of a young man hemmed in by circumstance, dreaming of something beyond the daily grind.

Set in the coastal town of Longferry, Thomas Flett earns a living scraping shrimp from the grey beach with his horse and cart, carrying on his family’s old trade while harbouring private dreams of music and a life less constrained. 

When a striking visitor arrives — an American with the promise of glamour and opportunity — Thomas is shaken from routine and forced to reckon with whether his dreams are delusion, possibility, or both. Poignant and atmospheric, the novel renders ordinary labour and quiet longing with lyric precision, tracking what it means to strive for fulfilment far beyond the world one knows.

It’s a mesmerising story of class, ambition, and the pull between stasis and change, carried in prose that makes the mundane feel elemental and the sea itself almost a character. 

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