A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS is the unforgettable and completely captivating new novel from Sarah Winman; author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT.Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what; but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek; broken in body and spirit; the old woman comes to his aid. A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS is a glorious; life-affirming story about the magic in everyday life and the pull of the sea; the healing powers of storytelling and sloe gin; love and death and how we carry on when grief comes snapping at our heels.