What Did the Deep Sea Say?

Marion Coutts

In 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.

Author(s): Coutts, Marion
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 05/02/2026
Pagination: 224 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Fern Press
Published By: Fern Press
Book Classification: Memoirs|Sea life & the seashore: general interest|Coping with death & bereavement
Dimensions: 224x145x23
Weight: 358
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781911717539