While Finn schemes, his sister Cora spends her days decorating the abandoned houses in Big Running with global flair-the baker's home becomes Italy the mailman's, Britain. Callaghan, Finn thinks he may have discovered a way to find the fish, and in turn, save the only home he's ever known. Aided by his reclusive music instructor Mrs. Between his accordion lessons and reading up on Big Running's local flora and fauna, eleven-year-old Finn Connor develops an obsession with solving the mystery of the missing fish. And as the months go on, plagued by romantic temptations new and old, the emotional distance between the once blissful Aidan and Martha only widens. But soon the family fears they'll have to leave Big Running for good. Aidan and Martha Connor now spend alternate months of the year working at an energy site up north to support their children, Cora and Finn. The Connor family is one of the few that is still left in their idyllic fishing village, Big Running after the fish mysteriously disappeared, most families had no choice but to relocate and find work elsewhere. **LONGLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE** From Emma Hooper, critically acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine "Pick of the Week," comes a lyrical, charming, and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction, and the different way each of them fights to keep hope, memory, and love alive.
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