A Deeper Sea

By: Yvonne Wilson
ISBN: 978-1-897306-44-4
Language: English
Pages: 224
Release: October 25, 2006
Edition: 1st

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A beautiful fable about a man who has opened locked gates without a key but can't remember how he did it.

Wilson's tenth novel is another on her favourite theme: survival of the individual in isolation: remote communities, harsh climates, social solitude.

Hano is the only child of the only policeman on Rangiora's Reef. He is also the only child whose first language is English and who is not one of Father Jean's flock.

Hano needs another boy, and when he is five, the "Children of the Sea"-a deeper sea than ours-make tentative first contact by sending one of their own. Hano tells his foster mother, "His name is Star, and he's my brother."

Hano's story unfolds in four parts: Childhood on Rangiora's Reef, setting based on Akaroa, an isolated town near Christchurch, New Zealand; Success in maturity, setting based on a New Brunswick village the author knew well as a child; in Love, with a girl half his age, in a hot desert setting; and Old Age, trapped in a jungle.

Hano survives, rises to high honour, and remembers at last what true freedom is and how to achieve it.

Yvonne Wilson is a writer, book editor, and teacher of fiction writing in Saint John, New Brunswick. Four more novels are in progress.

“A Deeper Sea has more of an otherworldly perspective than your [Wilson’s] other novels—though it’s there to some extent in the others, too.

“Hano, sometimes the seer, other times unable to see without guidance, is an intriguing protagonist and without literary precedents, as far as I know.”

“There are some lovely poetic parts: ‘As if suspended against gravity, the peaches floated in their syrup medium, magnified and clarified like… like my childhood that the sun passed through and split into rainbow colours.’ (p. 109)

"I can almost smell the apricots, the flowers and the sea. The nostalgia Hano feels from losing this special place is palpable. Congratulations!"

--excerpt from a letter to Yvonne Wilson from Allison Mitcham, Professor Emeritus (Eng. Lit), Université de Moncton

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Catherine Thompson (Monday, 25 June 2007)
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“It has a mystical or rather haunting quality. I like that. The idea of travelling back and forth, or transcending into another realm is always intriguing.”

“You are truly a literary writer.

“The detailed descriptions of nature and things, as well as the skilful bearing upon emotions and thought are wonderful. I wish I had that talent.”

From a letter to Yvonne Wilson by Betty Cluthé, a writer from Fredericton.

Anna Dyckow (Tuesday, 12 June 2007)
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Hi Yvonne

I finished "A Deeper Sea" last week.

Only a very fine writer could attempt such a storyline and get away with it.

I'm sure I would gain more form a second read. The best books are like this: you finish and almost want to read it again to see what more insight you could gain. It would be a great book for a book club to tackle.

I thought your previous Book Red Dragon Square was an exodus story. I was wrong; you told me. Is this book a version of the Moses story? I see a lot of parallels between Hano and Moses and the theme of the exodus story.

Off? Even if I am, it was the most interesting read I've had in years.

Shawn