'An absorbing powerful and deeply beautiful novel' Observer 'Breath has the sensibility and
reach of an epic' Scotland on Sunday When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with
another teenage adventure gone wrong he knows better than anyone what happened and how. Thirty
years before that dead boy could have been him. Bruce remembers what it was like to be a
risk-taking kid to feel that thrill and that fear . . . This is the story of Bruce and his
best friend Loonie and the obsession that changed both of their lives. It is about the
exhilaration of the sea and the waves the treacherous addiction to risk and the intoxicating
power of forbidden love. 'A love letter to the sea and a moving coming-of-age story' Sunday
Telegraph 'Breath has the urgent clarity of a story that needed to be told' Guardian
