Stern Men

On two remote islands off the coast of Maine - Courne Haven and Fort Niles - generations of local lobstermen have fought each other over who has the right to fish the waters that divide them. Their unlikely saviour is eighteen-year-old Ruth Thomas, a smart, resilient, irredeemably romantic woman who avoids her destiny with a passion that serves only to draw it closer to her.

'Finding an Austen heroine in a lobster boat - an irreverent and observant young woman, reeking of bait - is one of many delights delivered by Elizabeth Gilbert in Stern Men, her beautifully wrought and very funny novel' Mirabella

'Ruth loves her island with a heroine's passionate wisdom, but she falls in love with a boy from the enemy island, the enemy clan . . . There's Romeo and Juliet in the drama of the young lovers' Los Angeles Times

'Elizabeth Gilbert has been described by Annie Proulx as a "writer of incandescent talent". She justifies this assessment in Stern Men . . . Gilbert's poise in constructing a plot and her feeling for her characters make it a worthy successor to Pilgrims which won a series of first-fiction awards' Glasgow Herald

Title - Stern Men

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Author - Elizabeth Gilbert

ISBN 13 - 9780330351768

Imprint - Picador

Publisher - Pan Macmillan

Date Published - 10/08/2001

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 130 x 197 x 20mm

Weight - 200 g

Languages - English