Tracy McEnaney
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Podcast Appearances
The Ferryman and His Wife by Norwegian author Freud Gritten.
This is translated by Alison McCulloch.
It's only 166 pages long.
It's a beautiful book.
It's about Niels Vick, who is a ferryman on the fjord.
It's his last day on earth.
He takes his boat out on the fjord for the last time, as he's done so for the past 15 years, like his father before him.
And the passengers on the boat are the people that have died.
You know, they're coming back into the boat beyond the grave.
that have influenced his life, friendships, passengers that he's liked or not liked, I suppose, along the way.
But the only passenger he wants to meet is Martha, his beloved wife.
Does he meet her on the way?
This is simply a gorgeous book.
166 pages.
But it packs an awful lot into those pages.
Oh, this is a great book.
It's a debut.
It's a real crash, wallop, bang of a book.
Bud and Catherine, the parents decide to have an open marriage with amusing results.
This is kind of funny book as well.