Seascraper - Benjamin Wood

 A story about a young man who spends his life working at the sea. A man barely 20 but who feels like he has aged more. A man with a talent that is dormant but of no use in his current situation. 

And then one day a visitor turns his life around. It makes him look at his life again, the people in it with a new lens, truths that he had never known, lies that feel like the truth. 

A novel about art, its viability and value and its mesmerising potential.

A superb story, I shall be cheering for this longlisted Booker prize novel. 

P.S. I listened to Thomas Flett's recording on the author's website after reading the novel.

It felt like the cherry on the sumptuous cake that is Seascraper.