A Year of Marvelous Ways by Sarah Winman Cozy of her mother’s fight against

of her mother’s fight against addiction and abuse after her father left

and what is behind the peculiar local whispers about “blood thiefs

Bea's world is a sea of changes

and woefully short on practical skills

A Year of Marvelous Ways by Sarah Winman Cozy of her mother’s fight againstThe remarkably life affirming novel from the highly acclaimed author of Still Life, set in 1940s Cornwall following the unlikely friendship between an eighty nine year old woman at the end of her story and a young soldier, reeling from World War II, at the start of his own. Marvelous Ways has lived alone alongside a winding creek near the rugged Cornwall coast for nearly all her life, and has recently taken to spending her days sitting on the steps of