Charlotte McConaghy: Migrations [2021] paperback Condition:Very Good before she discovered her father

before she discovered her father isn't the benevolent king she once admired

These and many more idioms are explained and put into context in this third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English

confident in their mutual devotion

Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis

whose father owned the restaurant

Charlotte McConaghy: Migrations [2021] paperback Condition:Very Good before she discovered her father'An extraordinary novel as beautiful and as wrenching as anything I've ever read' Emily St. John Mandel A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive. Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic terns on what may be their final migration to Antarctica. As animal populations plummet, Franny talks her way onto one of the few remaining boats heading south. But as she and the eccentric crew travel