The Offing
/ Benjamin Myers
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing , 2020, c2019
- 260 p. ; 20 cm
During an idyllic English summer following World War II an unlikely friendship emerges between a teenage, nationalistic working class man and an older bohemian woman. While working a summer job for her, the teenager discovers an unpublished book of poetry holding a tragic secret message beyond the grave from her deceased lover, and both their lives are irrevocably changed.