Catherine Poulain (Author)
Catherine Poulain has lived on the road and on the sea for
most of her life. Employed in fish farms in Iceland and as a farm
worker in Canada, she also worked as a barmaid in Hong Kong and in
naval shipyards in the US. She spent ten years fishing in Alaska
before returning to France, where she was born. Woman at Sea is her
first novel.
Adriana Hunter (Translator)
Adriana Hunter has translated some eighty books, mostly works of
literary fiction. She won the 2011 Scott-Moncrieff Prize for her
translation of Véronique Olmi’s Beside the Sea, and was twice
shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in
Kent, England.
Supple and taut, brutal and delicate, Woman At Sea pulled me about
with the tug and thrust of an ocean-storm. The roars gave way to
calm spells, though, so intensely beautiful I thought them made by
magic. With whip-crackingly smart dialogue, and prose as clean as a
sea-breeze, this book is delightfully, heartstoppingly frank. I
devoured it, and will be pressing it on everyone I know.
*Elanor Dymott, author of EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE and SILVER
AND SALT*
Vividly evoked… Poulain’s visceral account of what it’s like to
live such a heightened existence is gripping.
*Herald Scotland, *Best Paperbacks of the Year**
A vivid account of hard graft in treacherous conditions ... The
salt-stung pages practically reek of the cod that the 30-something
narrator, Lili, spends her days gutting, as she wins over a gruff
crew doubtful she can earn her keep.
*Daily Mail*
Poulain’s enthralling book… is utterly compelling. Like a tiny,
vibrant dart hurled into an immensity of sea and sky, Lili commands
attention throughout.
*Literary Review*
A debut novel of dazzling beauty.
*Elle*
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