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Below Deck
Below Deck | Sophie Hardcastle
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And then, just like that, a thought bubbles inside me. It's a beginning; a new beginning; my beginning. The beginning of the story I tell myself in order to survive. We choose to breathe, don't we? Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. Estranged from her parents, and living with her grandfather who is drowning in sadness, Oli faces the reality of life beyond university alone. When she wakes on a boat with no recollection of how she got there, she accepts the help of two strangers who change the course of her future forever. With Mac and Maggie, Oli learns to navigate a life upon open ocean and the world flowers into colours she's never seen before. Four years later, Oli, fluent in the language of the sea, is the only woman among men on a yacht delivery from Noumea to Auckland. In the darkness below deck, she learns that at sea, no one can hear you scream. Moving to London, Oli's life at sea is buried. When she meets Hugo, the wind changes, and her memories are dust blown into shapes. Reminding her of everything. Below Deck is about the moments that haunt us, the moments that fan out like ripples through the deep. So that everything else, becomes everything after. 'Lyrical, profound, and deeply moving Sophie Hardcastle's Below Deck will confront as well as soothe, and is the most tender, hopeful battle-cry of a book.' - Brooke Davis 'Hardcastle has captured the powerful words so many of us struggle to find, and I cannot imagine anyone could finish Below Deck unaffected.' - Bri Lee 'Below Deck will leave you breathless. Sophie Hardcastle is a phenomenal, courageous talent.' - Clementine Ford
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
Below Deck | Sophie Hardcastle
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📖 below deck / the binding / beastly bones
✍️ enid blyton, michael bond, alan bradley, jim butcher
🍿 bean the movie
👩‍🎤 ball park music
🎵 baby did a bad bad thing / chris isaak

#manicmonday #letterb @CBee

CBee Thanks for playing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2y
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LapReader
Below Deck | Sophie Hardcastle
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When your beautiful friend sends you pics of her local Little Free Library & asks you if you want anything but you don‘t see the message until it‘s too late & she‘s home but she walks right back & collects them for you anyway. I have the best friends. Most of them are bookworms. As a matter of fact Janneke & I met in the change room of our pole dancing studio. I was practicing a routine & she was reading the Hunger Games. Pic is of her son Jack ❤️

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Ooh, that‘s a quality friend right there! Below Deck is a fantastic book, enjoy ☺️ 4y
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Tashreads
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#bookreview #belowdeck ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫⁣

This book is powerful, and I think it would have been even more powerful if it had stuck to one main idea. Instead of focusing exclusively on sexual abuse and its ramifications (major trigger warnings) it also tried to be a book about art, race relations and climate change. And it felt a little scattered. The writing was poetic and it's message was important - but it just needed more focus.⁣

ju.ca.no Great review and great cover too! 4y
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Tashreads
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April book haul. Have you read any of these yet?

Cinfhen No, but I‘m envious of that beautiful stack of new books❣️❣️❣️ 5y
CaroPi No but I order this week #Hamnet and really looking forward! 5y
emmaturi No, but want to get Hamnet though! 5y
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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Phenomenal. In turns beautiful, heartbreaking and heartbreakingly beautiful while also being hopeful and courageous. I‘ve not read Sophie Hardcastle before and will admit that I was lured in by the gold leaf waves on the cover... but in this instance the book lives up to its beautiful cover.

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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‘You dying in your twenties is not romantic,‘ he told me, his eyes dense black, half in shadow. #firstlinefridays

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Gillyreads
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Books I got in March

MayJasper Looks tempting 😊 5y
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bookish.mum
Below Deck | Sophie Hardcastle
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My most recent book purchase 😍 I can't wait to read it!

#sophiehardcastle #belowdeck #bookworm

JennyM I was supposed to be going to see Sophie at an author event today - obviously it was cancelled. Enjoy the read. Looking forward to it myself 🙂 5y
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