The Starboard Sea: A Novel Simon and Schuster UK Can Phoebe make a new

Can Phoebe make a new friend and keep an old one

And they certainly don’t want to share their darkest secrets and most desperate fears with a room of strangers

controlling everything from jobs to genetics

Magical things can happen when your imagination is allowed to run wild

and calling the headmaster by his behind-the-back nickname of "Stiffo" to the students

The Starboard Sea: A Novel Simon and Schuster UK Can Phoebe make a new"A rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but to the right course through life, and the immense difficulty of finding and following it." Janet Maslin, The New York Times A powerful first novel about life and death, friendship and love, as one young man must navigate the depths of his emotions. JASON PROSPER