Heligoland_(novel)
Heligoland (novel)
2003 novel by Shena Mackay
Heligoland is a novel by British author Shena Mackay, first published in 2003 by Jonathan Cape. The Guardian says of the book "This is drawn so playfully and so compassionately – and with such consistently beautiful writing – that the experience is mysteriously comic and sweet."[1] It was shortlisted for both Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.[2][3]