This tragi-comic novel follows Marina from infancy through a troubled childhood and the forging of a lifelong friendship with someone as lost as herself. The story of the heroine’s mental struggles, her musical talent, her escape to London, her offbeat boyfriend, her sojourn in surburbia and eventual return to Ireland builds to a shocking crescendo. It is a narrative so rich with emotion and alive with intimate detail that when you finish reading you wish there could be more.
Advance Praise for Marina.
'Knowing and mysterious, funny and heartbreaking. Best of all though this is a genuine original, a singular enchantment.' Mike McCormack, Author of Solar Bones.
'Rich in insights and wry humour, the novel explores what it is to be isolated, lost, stranded between worlds. Aoibheann McCann writes exquisitely of the magnetic pull of sea and water, and Marina's yearning to belong. Marina would rather breathe water than air, and her fractured relationships mirror the planet's escalating tensions between oil, sea and sun.'
Danielle McLaughlin, Author of Dinosaurs on Other Planets.
'A cri-de-coeur on behalf of a purer state of being, and return thereto. Most of all, perhaps, a story about existing in the world, and how difficult and painful existing in the world can be, Marina is that oh-so-rare novelistic thing – an ideal blend of luminous prose and read-on storytelling. A wonderful gift of a first novel.'
Alan McMonagle, Author of Ithaca
