Walk Across the Sea

Written by Susan Fletcher

Narrated by Christina Moore

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By 1886 many of Eliza Jane McCully's neighbors are concerned that the growing immigrant Chinese population is threatening their comfortable way of life. But it is a young Chinese boy named Wah Chung who saves Eliza and her pet goat from being swept into the sea by a deadly wave. This makes Eliza wonder: Are the Chinese really people to be feared, as her father and their neighbors believe? Or are the Chinese immigrants people with whom the townspeople in Crescent City could live peaceably, with a little tolerance and understanding?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781490677026

Susan Fletcher

Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. She is the author of the bestselling Eve Green (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award), Oystercatchers and Witch Light - and most recently, the much-lauded Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew.

Reviews for Walk Across the Sea

[mutantpudding · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The protagonists struggle with her faith and her father's prejudice hit a little close to home to be honest. Obviously not the 19th century lighthouse keeper part but emotionally this really hit me and the whole thing was very atmospheric and well written.

[robertalea-223265 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I have always enjoyed Susan Fletcher's writing. This is an excellent story of 1800's California.