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  • Gillian Best on the Power of the Sea, Glaswegian tap water, & a Postcard from Jonathan Franzen
    Gillian Best on the Power of the Sea, Glaswegian tap water, & a Postcard from Jonathan Franzen
    August 03, 2017

    Gillian Best on the Power of the Sea, Glaswegian tap water, & a Postcard from Jonathan Franzen

    Gillian Best is making waves with her debut novel (we couldn't resist!).The Last Wave (House of Anansi) is an intergenerational drama set in Dover, spanning the decades from the 1940s to the present ...

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