Heligoland (novel)

Heligoland is a novel by British author Shena Mackay, first published in 2003 by Jonathan Cape. The Guardian reviewer saId 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." Heligoland was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.