If this premise appeals, I say go for it. But considering we’re signed up for a moonlight cruise to a darkly familiar moorage (genre-wise), there may be more to it. To the reader, Annie’s affliction may seem only an innocent malady of her youth, a persistent longing for a married man given up for drowned in the first disaster. Steeped in atmospherics and relentless foreboding, The Deep treads a bleak path between two maritime disasters from the second decade of the last century.Īt the novel’s romantic core: Irish lass Annie Hebbly, Titanic survivor, who seeks a new position on Britannic, its all-but-identical sister ship, now refitted for WWI hospital duty.Īnnie has been newly released from nervous confinement, her asylum director having determined that her discharge, after several years, is long overdue. This chilling tale of tragic death and spectral visitations bumps along behind the restless heartbeat of its plucky young heroine.
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