"Gripping - and profound... Kate Sawyer has a great gift for capturing the tiny details that
tell us everything about a person or dynamic." -- Marian Keyes Margaret Smith is at the beach.
It is a summer day unlike any other Margaret has ever known. The Smith family have left the
town where they live and work and go to school and come to a place where the sky is blue the
sand is white and the sound of the sea surrounds them. An ordinary family discovering the joy
of getting away for the first time. Over the course of the coming decades they will be
transformed through their holiday experiences each new destination a backdrop as the family
grows and changes love stories begin and end -- and secrets are revealed. Coming this summer
Getting Away is a dazzlingly ambitious new novel from the author of Waterstones' Fiction
Book of the Month This Family and the Costa shortlisted The Stranding .
