From a writer admired by Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, and Melvyn Bragg, an epic family saga spanning the decades from the Second World War to the Balkan conflict
John David Morley was born in Singapore in 1948 and raised in Malaya and on Africa's Gold Coast before he went to school in England. He took his first job as a stagehand, followed by a spell teaching in Mexico. He spent three years studying in Japan, subject of his international bestseller PICTURES FROM THE WATER TRADE. Having made his home in Munich, the focus of Morley's life was in Central Europe, where for twenty-five years he worked as a location manager for Japanese TV and as a journalist for publication such as THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE, the OBSERVER and CONDE NAST TRAVELLER. A collection of his journalism, ENCOUNTERS, was published in 1990. His tenth novel, ELLA MORRIS, was published in 2014.
This is a bold and fascinating mystery novel of ideas. John David Morley enfolds science and human loss with great fictional cunning[A] splendid bookSuperb ... There is beauty in strange places in Morley's haunting scheme - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH on Journey to the End of the WhaleA remarkable feat of imagination and sheer narrative energyA marvellous and original work of fictionExquisite . . . There is beauty in strange places in Morley's haunting schemeA writer of protean, creative intelligence - NEW YORK TIMES
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