# What Did the Deep Sea Say?

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- Authors: [Marion Coutts](https://www.bookquiver.com/marion-coutts)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 4 h 48 min
- Narrated by: Marion Coutts
- ISBN: 978-15-2997-539-0
- Published: 2026-02-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 4 h 48 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. 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