'Wild and wonderful ... I doubt anyone will ever match Strandings
for its sheer bravura, its wry insight, and its absolute,
engulfing, and brilliantly enlivening whaleheadedness' PHILIP
HOARE, ALBERT AND THE WHALE 'Addictive and scandalously
fascinating' Caught by the River When Peter Riley was thirteen, a
woman with blue hair and a comet tattoo asked him to help load the
jaw of a sperm whale into the back of a Volvo 245. The encounter
set Riley on a decades-long quest to make sense of what had
happened. Enter the secretive world of whale scavengers. When a
whale washes up on one of Britain's coasts, a fugitive community
descends to claim trophies from the carcass. Some are driven by
magical beliefs. Some are motivated by profit: there is a black
market for everything from ambergris to whaletooth sex toys. But
for others, the need goes much deeper. Join Riley on a tour of a
stranded kingdom's weird outer reaches, where nothing is as it
seems. Meet witches, pedlars, fetishists, conspiracy theorists and
fallen aristocrats. And prepare for a final revelation, as the
mystery of the comet woman tangles with the enigmatic symbol of
Leviathan itself, beached on Britain's fatal shore.
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