About Grace

· HarperCollins UK
3.6
17 reviews
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416
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About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning All The Light We Cannot See.

Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family’s home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach.

Then, as unstoppable as a vision, he falls in love, at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. And then the visions of Grace’s death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees.

He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out...

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3.6
17 reviews
Sebastian Cucia
May 22, 2018
I can't believe is the same author who wrote "All the light we cannot see". This whole book is so different that I struggled to finish it and I only remember less than 15% of the entire book. Over 75% of the book is about describing the landscapes, flies and snow.
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Bella Sivyer
March 13, 2016
Fascinating and so insightful. I loved every beautifully crafted word of it. Totally different but just as wonderful as All The Light You Cannot See. I'm onto the next one already. Thankyou.
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Alan Dibley
February 8, 2024
Kept me till the end.
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About the author

Anthony Doerr’s published his first book, ‘The Shell Collector’, a collection of short stories in 2002. He is 32 and lives in Idaho, where he is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Boise State University.

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