The Sea Edward Marston moving slowly

moving slowly

Charles Spencer and Cat Jarman

‘Masterful

finds himself being trained by William to be a police dog

living a quiet life among books and history

The Sea Edward Marston moving slowlyThe Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was