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What Did the Deep Sea Say?
- Author
- Marion Coutts
- Narrator
- Marion Coutts
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 5 February 2026
- Run Time
- 4 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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.
'A miracle of a book' CELIA PAUL
© Marion Coutts 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
Critics Review
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A quietly phenomenal book — about grief and geography, art-making and the elements, mothering and letting go
Lauren Elkin
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I 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 Paul
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A 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 Francis
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Clear-eyed and courageous, her writing is an existential act
Mark Wallinger
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Details
- Author
- Marion Coutts
- Narrator
- Marion Coutts
- Duration
- 4 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 February 2026
- ISBN
- 9781529975390
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Memoirs, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, Sea life and the seashore: general interest
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.A stunning meditation on how the physical world can bring us back to earth from the edge of griefIn 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.'A miracle of a book' CELIA PAUL© Marion Coutts 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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