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What Did the Deep Sea Say?

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In the aftermath of loss, a mother and young son cross the ocean to a remote strip of land on the north Atlantic - a stunning meditation on how the physical world can bring us back to earth from the edge of grief In the aftermath... Read More
Format: Hardback
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What Did the Deep Sea Say?

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In the aftermath of loss, a mother and young son cross the ocean to a remote strip of land on the north Atlantic - a stunning meditation on how the physical world can bring us back to earth from the edge of grief 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781911717539

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fern Press

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 145.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 358g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Marion Coutts is a writer and artist who has exhibited throughout the UK and internationally. She has held fellowships at Tate Liverpool and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, and was a research fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Her first book, The Iceberg, won the Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Book Award for Biography. She is a reader in art at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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