Reef

'A work of strange, slow-motion, underwater intensity. Put your ear to the page and you can almost hear the ocean whisper' IndependentA single lighted match banishes Triton from his father's home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island's disappearing reef. Stranded in London years later, Triton plumbs the depths of his childhood memories - a period of brewing political, ethical and religious turmoil - an