'I am a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present.

Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore: the year I discovered love'.

In the early sixties on an East Anglian beach, a fragile wooden hut is harried daily by the sea.

It is ignored by the boys from the nearby boarding school who stumble past on their birch-enforced runs.

Until the day, one sixteen-year-old boy stops and comes face to face with the hut's owner: enigmatic, beguiling, and beautiful Finn.

The hut and the beach - but most of all Finn - provide a haven away from the petty rules and bullies.

But they also hold a mysterious, fragile secret. A secret that will be tested by friendship, growing adolescent love and the terrifying fury of the sea.