• ISBN13: 9781804271766
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Publisher Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Publication Date: March 13, 2025
• Pages: 168
• Original Price: GBP 12.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 228 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Literary, Family Life / General, and World Literature / England / 21st Century

Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat is a brilliant novel grappling with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility.

On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast - the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the inhabitants going about their business, a quiet backdrop for her reckoning with herself. An episode from her first visit resurfaces vividly - her encounter with John, a man struggling to come to terms with the violent death of his nephew. Soon Teresa encounters some of the people she met last time around: Petros, an eccentric mechanic, whose life story may or may not be part of John's; the beautiful Niko, a diving instructor; and Xanthe, a waitress in one of the cafés on the leafy town square. They talk about their longings, regrets, the passing of time, their sense of who they are.

Jonathan Buckley is a writer and editor from the West Midlands, now living in Brighton. In 2015 he won the BBC National Short Story Award for 'Briar Road', and he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His previous novel, Tell, was the joint winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, a global, biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize. One Boat is his thirteenth novel, the second to come out with Fitzcarraldo Editions.