Above us the Sea by Ania Card
I would have picked this up for the front cover alone. I would have picked this up because I met and adore Ania. I recommend it for neither of these reasons however. Read it because it is brilliant. Soulful and sad (so so sad) but also brimming with life and the messy complications of love and friendship. This book has a lot to say about identity and loss and hope. A must read.
From the back
It's after a night in Cardiff's loudest gay bar that Toni first lays eyes on Gav, a retired Welsh boxer, and his boyfriend Karol, an aspiring Polish photographer. The trio soon fall into an intimate, ambiguous love triangle.
After a tragic event at a beach in Swansea, the trio are ripped apart, and Toni escapes to London, becoming caught between a convenient, loveless relationship and an illicit, lustful affair.
Lost halfway between the British future she has always wanted, and the Eastern European past she has been running from, Toni can only wonder where and with whom she really belongs.
Above Us The Sea is an ode to the tangled remains of lost loves and the imprints left by grieving souls, yearning for connection. This is a story of aching and emerging, intimacy and distance, set against an increasingly hostile landscape.
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