About the Book: The Sea
"'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected Professor John
Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005
The Sea is John Banvilles 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 his contemporaries, the Grace
twins Myles