Sea Wife

Moving forward and discovering new dimensions of oneself. Finding oneself and, by doing so, creating a better balance. Going through pain in order to start living again, with the weight of mutilations and scars, but with greater strength of mind, and a fuller personal and social awareness. The witness is Juliet Partlow, the protagonist of a powerful, poignant novel, The Sea WIfe, by Amity Gaige, Knopf Publishing Group. With the strength of a heart that is wounded but that has not given in, her memories begin at the end of a long voyage across the Caribbean on a sailing boat, also renamed “Juliet”, with her husband Michael at the helm and their two children, Sybil and Georgie, as their crew. They have left the rich suburbs of an eastern US city behind them. And on the sea, amid the storms and wearying calms, deserted islands and lively, noisy ports, they have put to the test themselves, their marriage, and the underlying sense of a quiet, ritualised life that failed to satisfy them. Agonising tensions emerge. As do the never dissipated shadows of past violence. Questions are asked about what a love relationship really is. They deal with death. Beyond the foreshore, lies the sea. Open. With a chance to build an uncertain, painful happiness while sailing. A lesson to be passed on. La sposa del mare Amity Gaige NN Editore, 2021