The narrator of The Seas lives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chambermaid, granddaughter to a typesetter, and daughter to a dead man, awkward and brave, wayward and willful, she is in love (unrequited) with an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. She is convinced that she is a mermaid. What she does to ease the pain of growing up lands her in prison. What she does to get out is the stuff of legend. In the words of writer Michelle Tea, The Seas is "creepy and poetic, subversive and strangely funny, [and] a phenomenal piece of literature."
Praise for The Invention of Everything Else:
'A beguiling mix of love, death, pigeons and time travel...a gem of a story about the power of imagination' Marie Claire
'Samantha Hunt is an exciting find - a fresh original voice...a fantastical love story...literary gold... It should appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Donna Tartt' Sunday Express
'Intelligent, compassionate...beautifully conjured' Daily Telegraph
- ISBN10 1849013934
- ISBN13 9781849013932
- Publish Date 22 July 2010 (first published 1 November 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Corsair
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English