A Letter to the Luminous Deep

Cathrall’s debut caught me up on a wave of whimsy and swept me away with its charm. A story to be cherished
A fascinating and charming story told in a uniquely elegant voice. A watery wonder of a novel! I loved it.
A Letter to the Luminous Deep is like nothing I’ve read before. The heartfelt intimacy of the epistolary narrative, juxtaposed with the magnificent oceanic world-building, results in a novel that is at once deeply human and mind-bogglingly imaginative. Both the setting and the story are exquisite, but it was the lovingly crafted voices of the characters that kept me hooked from beginning to end
An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore: nosy and loving families, epistolary romance, gorgeous worldbuilding, and anxious scholars doing their best to meet the world with kindness and curiosity – Freya Marske, author of A MARVELLOUS LIGHT
A shimmering, delicately crafted delight… Readers looking for heart warming romance and scholarly mystery against the backdrop of a wildly imaginative world will be charmed – H.G. Parry, author of THE MAGICIAN’S DAUGHTER
With its gorgeous underwater setting and whimsical academic sensibility, A Letter to the Luminous Deep is a strange, epistolary wonder – Mary McMyne, author of THE BOOK OF GOTHEL

Sylvie Cathrall writes stories of hope and healing with healthy doses of wonder and whimsy. She holds a graduate degree in odd Victorian art and has handled more than a few nineteenth-century letters (with great care). Sylvie married her former pen pal and lives in the mountains, where she dresses impractically and dreams of the sea.

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