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PUBLISHER: Mantle

ISBN: 9780230748705

PAGES: 440 p.

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The Summer Of The Bear

It is the summer of 1979. A tamed brown bear finds himself tempted by the lure of freedom and the wild open sea. Meanwhile a grieving, broken family arrive on a windswept island in the Outer Hebrides, looking for the time and space to understand the strange, bewildering events that led to the loss of their husband and father.

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