Words seem to me to be something very much like magic, and this book is filled with celebration of them! I mean, how amazing is it that someone you may never meet or who is no longer with us can speak right to the very core of you – to help you make sense of things and to help you along through all the ups and downs that life can bring and the author may never know the helping hand that they’ve leant, or the impact on the reader, but it could indeed change the course of a life.
It can give us great comfort to know that someone, somewhere in existence has experienced exactly what we have and in a way it creates it an intimate connection between you and the author and book.
Words have the power to comfort us, to hurt us, to make us laugh or cry they can swoop us back to a fond memory long forgotten or spur us onto the future yet uncharted they can connect us to each other and have the power to fill a void in us. I hope you enjoy and are inspired to look at books in a different way, and maybe even to pick up a copy of Words in Deep Blue and join the characters on a journey together. So in keeping with the theme of the book I’m writing the majority of this review in the form of letter. Words in Deep Blue arrived at the bookshop all parcelled up from the publishers one chilly November day in 2017, and as soon as I read the authors letter that came alongside it that evening, I felt an immediate kinship with the book and author, and from the very first page I was there with Henry & Rachel every step of the way. I’ve decided to revisit a book that found it’s way to me at the perfect time and, like all good books, it changed the way I see the world.
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