Dead in the Water

This is the Titanic book I have been longing for. It’s empathetic to its bones. While the Titanic mythos thrives on its mysticism and sensationalism, this is a stark, deeply human, chilling and curious meditation on the nature of death - both it’s inevitably and how resistant we are to face it in the western world. I expected to pick up a book about the Titanic, but what lurks within these pages is a reflective and strangely comforting examination of what waits for us at the end. – LUCY ROSE, author of THE LAMB
Doughty has taken a subject as well known as any could be and somehow made it new. Dead in the Water tells the story of Titanic’s dead with compassion, scrupulous care and an honourable dedication to understanding what it meant to die in the most famous shipwreck of all. As a reader, you can’t help but be infected by her fascination, but also to learn its human lesson: that we are drawn to such stories of death as a way of reckoning with our own – SOPHIE ELMHIRST, author of MAURICE AND MARALYN
The immediacy and the drama of Doughty’s account brought me up short on the first page and never let up. Here are the people on the doomed ship as if we knew them. Here are the people who survived as if we were them. Doughty’s prose is unstoppable and devastating. This book is a masterpiece of both scholarship and storytelling – SEBASTIAN JUNGER, author of IN MY TIME OF DYING

CAITLIN DOUGHTY is a writer, filmmaker and death-industry reform advocate. She has written three New York Times bestsellers (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, From Here to Eternity and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?) and created the ‘Ask a Mortician’ documentary series. She lives in upstate New York.

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