Seascraper

SeascraperLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE Seascraper shimmers, salt flecked and rippling. It swells with tense, memorable momentsPoignant, authentic, and hopeful. The Spectator In two words: Short. Brilliant. The Times (London) Twenty year old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, Northern England, working his grandpas trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the drizzly shore to scrape for shrimp,

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