New in paperback. In the Summer of 2011 Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza strip. She creates a vivid picture of life in this coastal fragment of self-governing Palestine A MONTH BY THE SEA gives unique insight into the way in which isolation has shaped this society: how it radicalises young men and plays into the hands of dominating patriarchs, yet also how it hardens determination not to give in and turns family into a towering source of support.
