Books
Book review: Honest, poetic memoir uses sea as canvas for memory, grief and survival
In a powerful debut, Miriam Mulcahy describes her emotional journey following the death of her parents and sister, who also loved sea swimming
Miriam Mulcahy is a writer, journalist and curator of a soon to be opened museum in Dún Laoghaire dedicated to the Naked Ape author Desmond Morris. She dedicates her first book, a literary non-fiction work about grief and the sea, to her family, swimmers and soldiers.
Over the course of seven years, Mulcahy lost her father, her mother and her sister. “The sea kept me alive,” she writes. “Breath on breath, stroke on stroke, go ...
