A Letter to the Luminous Deep (The Sunken Archive, #1)

by Sylvie Cathrall

Do you know how many tides comprise five years? How many sunsets? How many births and deaths and triumphs and failures and seasonal seabird migrations?

Compared to the rich world of conversation, writing a letter feels like representing a constellation of stars – a collection of enormous Suns! – by drawing simple lines and dots on paper. Serviceable, but leaving no scope for the imagination.