(Fourth Estate / Atico de los Libros, Spain / Mare Verlag, Germany / Einuadi, Italy; The Whale, Ecco USA).
Winner of 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. A gripping voyage of discovery into the heart of an obsession.
‘Philip Hoare was long been acclaimed as a brilliantly unconventional writer … This is the book he was born to write, a classic of its kind’, Rachel Cooke, The Observer.
an extraordinary, haunting book that goes beyond non-fiction or memoir to become an act of incredible retrieval; I… t.co/YywNh8WjTF
5 am: the sea, dark under light, scary to slip into, drawing me in and down
