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	Fritz Agency Christian Dittus
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English
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THE LAST WAVE

Gilian Best

A beautifully rendered family drama set in Dover, England, between the 1940s and the present day, THE LAST WAVE follows the life of Martha, a woman who has swum the English Channel ten times, and the complex relationships she has with her husband, her children, and her close friends.

MARTHA UND DAS MEER
Deutsch von Claudia Feldmann
[PB Droemer 05/19]

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Book Published 2017-08-01 by House of Anansi Press

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Film rights have sold to Awesome Media and Entertainment, for immediate development for television, with Jeff Norton and ex BBC Worldwide and ITV Studios executive Fraser Robinson attached as Executive Producers.

UK & Commonwealth (excl. Canada); Text Publishing;

Those who liked The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry will enjoy Gillian Best's The Last Wave for its quiet, intense examination of a woman fleeing British familial agony for the sea's thrilling embrace. -- Kathleen Winter, bestselling author of Annabel Thoroughly enjoyable. -- CBC Books In The Last Wave, Gillian Best shows us that in life, as in swimming the channel, we aren't defined by one decision, but rather the decisions we must make over and over again with each stroke, each moment - who we want to be, how we want to be. The Last Wave is an elegant meditation on commitment and the many forms of love. -- Tanis Rideout, author of Above All Things Gillian Best makes a literary splash with her debut novel, The Last Wave. . . . her entirely convincing portrayal of the Roberts family and their many undercurrents show that she's just beginning her journey as a fiction writer. -- Winnipeg Free Press A rich portrait of one woman, her family and the undercurrents of life. -- Hello Canada