This is My Sea: The Number 1 Bestseller

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'Prose written with the pen of a poet' - Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape

'Full of wisdom and poetry and epic emotion, This is My Sea explores grief, memory and loss through vivid words and striking imagery. It echoes lost summers and the beauty of life, like a shell held to the ear' - Ed O'Loughlin, author of The Last Good Funeral of the Year

Over the course of seven difficult years Miriam Mulcahy lost her mother, father and sister, each grief threatening to drown her. But instead of going under she discovered the lessons of the sea, letting the water teach her how to get through anything in life: one breath builds on another, another stroke, another kick and you will get home.

THIS IS MY SEA takes our greatest fear, death, and wraps it up in language so fine and beautiful that the reader is carried along and comforted by how completely lost Miriam was and how she found solace in all the things that sustained her: books, music, art, friends, love, swimming, and of course the sea.

Shortlisted for the Bookstation Lifestyle Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2023.

For fans of The Salt Path by Raynor Winn and I Found my Tribe by Ruth Fitzmaurice.

Reviews

''Lyrical, powerful and impactful'' - Irish Examiner

''A beautiful book on grief and recovery'' - Louise Kennedy

''Prose written with the pen of a poet'' - Desmond Morris

''Really beautiful, a powerful and impactful piece of writing'' - Niamh Fitzpatrick

''This book made me cry. Which feels appropriate, because grief and the sea go hand-in-hand - saltwater is the place to take sorrow, and leave it, emerging with hope and vigour. It also lifted me. Miriam Mulcahy writes so beautifully, it's impossible not to feels the joy as well as the pain'' - Emily Hourican

Author Bio

Miriam Mulcahy is a writer, journalist and editor who contributes to the Irish Times. She has a degree in European Studies and French from the University of Limerick, lives in Kildare, and is a single parent to four children and a dog called Juno who takes her out for long walks on the Curragh every day. Last year she curated the Surrealist Gallery, a permanent exhibition on the life of Desmond Morris, bringing together her passions for art, books and nature.