What Did the Deep Sea Say?

Author(s): Coutts, Marion,
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 05/02/2026,
Pagination: 224 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Fern Press,
Published By: Vintage Publishing,
Book Classification: Autobiography: general,
Dimensions: 223 x 146 x 23
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781911717539

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'A miracle of a book' CELIA PAULA stunning meditation on how the physical world can bring us back to earth from the edge of griefIn the aftermath of catastrophic loss, a mother and her young son cross the Atlantic, taking refuge in a wooden house on a remote strip of land. Viewed from the shore, where land meets sea, the horizon is a line that holds their attention and draws them in. Camera in hand, she charts their progress and starts to imagine new ways of being and a new existence for her small family.

Writing with precision and clarity, Coutts combines the real with the fictional, thinking through art, poetry, geology, maps and Minecraft to present a devastating and fierce reflection on intimacy and separation, the visible and the invisible and the fragility and strangeness of the ocean and its borders.

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