num_pages: 156
description: A businessman is mesmerized by the woman he follows from a London tube. A Dublin mother raises her children alone. A married woman in San Francisco desperately searches for the name of a flower as her life slips away from her. A young Irish girl drifts through a foreign city.Sara Berkeley's characters move effortlessly across frontiers, through emotional and personal landscapes. Equally at home in Europe and America as their native Ireland, they hover on the edge of personal decisions, often unaware of their own blind panic. Evoking a rich tapesty of experiences in language which is uniquely her own, The Swimmer in the Deep Blue Dream adds an exciting new dimension to Irish fiction.
language: English
title: The Swimmer in the Deep Blue Dream
titlecomplete: The Swimmer in the Deep Blue Dream
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Thistledown Press