Ocean

"Strange, wonderful, and compelling." -- Louis de Bernières A powerful yacht, a warring family, the unforgiving deep... Caught in a terrorist explosion on the London Underground, inner-city schoolteacher Helen is pregnant, disoriented, and moments from death--until a stranger leads her to safety and then disappears. Haunted by his sudden vanishing, Helen becomes obsessed with finding him, slowly losing her grip on reality--and on her family. As her marriage begins to fracture, her husband Frank proposes a radical solution: sell everything and sail across the Atlantic with their son, Nicholas, and troubled foster daughter, Sindi. Their vessel is Innisfree, the very boat on which Helen and Frank first fell in love. What begins as a bold bid for redemption becomes an epic and perilous journey. The ocean is as wild and unpredictable as the grief and heartbreak Helen is trying to outrun. Will the voyage meant to save them ultimately destroy them instead? With a fiercely funny, maverick heroine at its helm, Ocean is a powerful exploration of the uncharted waters of the human heart. From the award-winning author of Larchfield, this gripping, beautifully written novel plunges deep into what it truly means to heal--and to live.