The Last True Poets of the Sea
- Author Julia Drake
- Narrator Tavia Gilbert
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 31 December 2019
- Run Time 10 hours and 10 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Mental health, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: siblings.
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What to expect
From a stunning new voice in YA literature comes an epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life.
The Larkin family isn’t just lucky—they persevere. At least that’s what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great grandmother didn’t drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer.
But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can’t stop partying with the wrong people. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life.
Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family’s missing piece—the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century.
She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes—and the bridges she builds along the way—may be the start of something like survival.
Epic, funny, and sweepingly romantic, The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck.
Critics Review
u201cTender and incisive, profound and page-turning, warm and beautifully written, and very funny.u201d
u201cAt once hilarious, insightful, and swashbuckling, Drakeu2019s debut is a lyrical adventure like no other.u201d
u201cWitty, surprisingu2026A warm, wise, strange meditation on developing the strength to be vulnerable.u201d
u201cDrake has drawn all her characters richly, easily enabling readers to identify with Violet, Sam, and their struggles. The seaside setting is vividly evoked, and readers will feel fully transported to the small town of Lyric.u201d
u201cAn authentic and romantic taleu2026that shows that life can be embraced again even after enduring a tragedy.u201d
u201cDrakeu2019s suspenseful novel offers three strands of high dramau2026[and] Violet emerges as a genuine, sympathetic protagonist struggling to create something new from the wreckage of her life.u201d
u201cWry, quick-witted, and filled with deep grief and fathomless joy in equal measureu2026Precisely and profoundly maps the ebbs and flows of surviving through trauma.u201d
u201cTavia Gilbertu2019s expressive narration shows careful attunement to the emotions of sixteen-year-old Violetu2026Gilbert deftly portrays secondary characters and gradually shows Violet thawing through her uncleu2019s kindness, the friendship of locals, and her investigation of her ancestral pastu2026Gilbert smoothly differentiates Violetu2019s nuanced feelings, deepening her emotions as she falls in love for the first time.u201d
u201cAs warm and bright as a beach bonfire on a hazy summer night, The Last True Poets of the Sea will lift you up on a tide of love and lyricism, and carry you away, laughing and crying.u201d
u201cAn immersive, emomtional, and deeply honest story about family, friendship, mental health, and all the different forms of courage. A powerful and beautifully told paean to living among wreckage and finding homeu2014and hopeu2014inside ruins.u201d
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