Miranda Cowley Heller

A magnificent literary debut about the myriad loves that make up a life. Before anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the glorious fresh water pond below The Paper Palace—the gently decaying summer camp in the backwoods of Cape Cod where her family has spent every summer for generations. As...

From the author of the Women's Prize 2022 longlisted novel The Paper Palace comes a beautiful work of poetry looking sequentially at childhood, motherhood, marriage, divorce, and mortality. What the Deep Water Knows is the debut poetry collection from bestselling author Miranda Cowley Heller, a series of exquisite reflections on love in all its seasons. In poetry that is quick-witted...