Gift book

Written by: Craig Huggetson

Number of pages: 248

At eleven years old, Julian Flint prefers to remain invisible and safe within the adult architecture provided by his mother, uncle, and aunt. But when his mother Emma, ​​a famous sculptor, takes them all on a family holiday to a hotel by the sea, he meets the captivating and irreverent Claire and everything he thought he knew begins to shift – setting off a chain of events.

From the author of The Dream House and The White Room comes Craig Higgenson's most engaging and nuanced novel to date. Moving from the lush shores of Umhlanga Rocks to the stark midwinter wastes of Johannesburg and the rich, exotic coral reefs of Mauritius, this brilliantly drawn novel explores the fault lines between loyalty and betrayal, innocence and accountability, blindness and perception, entrapment and escape. The Gift Book dives into the deepest and most dangerous reaches of human consciousness in order to catch the brightest fish.