About this book
Lynn Michell is the author of sixteen acclaimed fiction and nonfiction books including Write From the Start (Longman), a writing scheme for schools, Shattered (HarperCollins) based on interviews with thirty people seriously ill with ME, Growing Up in Smoke (Pluto Press) a first account of children as passive smokers, three novels and the official biography of the artist, Rosa Branson (Linen Press). Her debut novel, White Lies (Linen Press), was runner-up for the Robert Louis Stevenson award. Lynn lives in the Western Isles where she runs Linen Press and looks after brown and black sheep.
Reviews
‘A meditation on loss, longing and belonging.’
– Derek Thompson, author of the Thomas Bladen thrillers, Long Shadows, West Country Murder.
‘A brilliantly written, magical story about shore and sea and those who belong there.’
– Avril Joy, Costa and People’s Prize winning author of Sometimes A River Song and The Silent Women.
‘The overwhelming energy of the book is hopeful, personified in the reckless, pure soul of the child Fenn. In a book about belonging, and not belonging, and loss, she is the story’s beautiful defiant beating heart.’
– Anna Caig
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‘The water all around us is an emotionally moving novel that fills the mind with secrets, stories, and strange songs like a fable or fairy tale. Each of the central characters is rendered beautifully – authentic, empathic, lonely, self-contained and vulnerable. They are skillfully written, and are effortlessly true to themselves and the remarkable landscapes and seascapes they inhabit. The pace of the novel is wonderfully controlled allowing each secret, story and strange song to be revealed in its own vivid colours.’
– Jess Richards, author of Snake Ropes, Cooking with Bones, City of Circles and Birds and Ghosts.
‘Just as the sea rolls and holds its many dreams and secrets, so the story-telling anchors this book in our hearts.’
– Nick Dawson, author of North, Tracks of a Panda, Tigress
‘Once again, Lynn Michell gives us an entrancing narrative of the redemptive quality of human relationships, against a backdrop of the natural world and the urgent environmental challenges it faces.’
– Jenny Gorrod, Dundee Review of the Arts
Read the full review here: https://dura-dundee.org.uk/2023/09/26/the-water-all-around-us
