A young woman walks out on her life, taking only her young daughter. She drives down to the seaside and they spend the first night camping on the beach. The next day, they cross the border and stop in a small Spanish town. And there they stay. The old life of routine and immobility is transformed into one of freedom and fluidity. Mother and daughter play on the beach, go for walks, eat ice cream. They watch the ocean. And they make new contacts: with the owner of the flat, with a swimming instructor who is teaching the child and with a strangely hesitant private investigator, hired by the woman's deserted husband...Intensely sensual, simple yet unnerving, Breathing Underwater is Darrieussecq's tour de force. The novel was hailed in France as 'gripping' (Le Monde), 'truly inspired' (Elle) and 'the good news we've all been waiting for' (Le Figaro).
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"'A haunting new novel from the internationally celebrated author who illuminates those parts of life other writers cannot or do not want to reach.' Independent on Sunday"
About the Author
Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France. Pig Tales (1996) was published in 34 countries. Her second novel, My Phantom Husband (1998), became an immediate bestseller. For The New Yorker, she is France's best young novelist, according to the Glasgow Herald, 'she makes all those daring young men of British letters look very tamo indeed'.
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