Margins
Etta and Otto and Russell and James book cover
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
2015
First Published
3.67
Average Rating
320
Number of Pages

I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back. Etta's greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very early one morning, takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the 2,000 miles to water. Meanwhile her husband Otto waits patiently at home, left only with his memories. Their neighbour Russell remembers too, but differently - and he still loves Etta as much as he did more than fifty years ago, before she married Otto.

Avg Rating
3.67
Number of Ratings
13,015
5 STARS
20%
4 STARS
40%
3 STARS
30%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
2%
goodreads

Author

Emma Hooper
Emma Hooper
Author · 4 books
Books about Places and People. Songs about Dinosaurs and Insects. Research about Pop Music and Robots. Emma lives, writes, plays and teaches in Bath, England, but goes home to Canada to cross-country ski as often as she can.
548 Market St PMB 65688, San Francisco California 94104-5401 USA
© 2025 Paratext Inc. All rights reserved