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143 pages, Paperback
First published August 19, 2021
Héloïse Press champions world-wide female talent. Héloïse’s careful selection of books gives voice to emerging and well-established female writers from home and abroad. With a focus on intimate, visceral and powerful narratives, Héloïse Press brings together women’s issues and literary sophistication.
‘We know each other—don’t we? You and I, we’ve met before—right? I can’t remember where or when—can’t be certain of the notion without all my thoughts taking on strange colors—but it’ll come back to me—a smell—a colour—I’m waiting. The satisfaction of completing the puzzle, of placing that last piece we merely have to put down and it slides flush with the others all on its own—it will all come back like a déjà vu.’
‘Without knowing how it happened—she finds herself alone in the engine room with its furnace-like heat. She lies down again and places her ear on the floor to listen. She’s listening for the dissonance, the heart murmur. But what she hears is that steady, strong beating of an animal, that giant, calm pounding. So she places her hand on the floor and smiles. On land, this would be like placing her arm around a horse’s neck and breathing along with it. Waiting for trust to be born, that mute connection we believe to be loyalty, something eternal, when we know that everything begins again each day. But it’s harder—to tame whales.’