What Did the Deep Sea Say?
$35.10
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2026
Summary
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, poet…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911717539 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1911717537 |
| Author: | Marion Coutts |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Fern Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 145mm x 23mm |
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A quietly phenomenal book — about grief and geography, art-making and the elements, mothering and letting go – Lauren ElkinI loved reading What did the Deep Sea Say? Marion Coutts gently reveals to us a world seen as if for the first time. It’s a miracle of a book – Celia PaulA strange and beautiful meditation on endings and edges, grief and hope, love and sorrow … What Did the Deep Sea Say? takes the reader into a liminal space rich in revelation and reflection – Gavin FrancisClear-eyed and courageous, her writing is an existential act – Mark Wallinger
About The Author
Marion Coutts
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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