Atlantic Black

Atlantic Black by A. S. Patric


ISBN
9780995409828
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288

‘A powerful and mesmerising voyage into darkness. Atlantic
Black creates an indelible portrait of humanity sailing towards war.’ ~ Heather Rose, Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize



In this haunting new novel,
Katerina Klova and her mother are crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner. When
Anne suffers a psychotic breakdown, Katerina is left alone on a ship full of
strangers who span classes and stations, all of whom carry their ambitions,
fears and obsessions with them. For a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of an
ambassador, it’s an exciting, frightening world to navigate.

Atlantic
Black is a psychologically intense and
affecting story of unexpected familial betrayal, of a mother and daughter's
relationship, of a brother and father whose voices resonate from afar. Personal
loneliness, love and loss, are tightly bound to the wider reality of a world
set on a fateful course. The legacy of violence, and of how the First World War
precipitated the Second World War reverberates as if ‘tolling on the inside of
a church bell’. Through the eyes of Katerina and her own family’s place within
a fracturing world, we see the way damage, yet also hope, are passed from one
generation to another. A.S. Patric's writing is achingly tender, the tone
merciless but heartbreaking in its compassion.

The story takes place over
one day and night, New Year's Eve, 1939. The RMS Aquitania steams across
the Atlantic Ocean. On the horizon, the world is about to explode.



‘I am still
walking the slick decks of Atlantic
Black, looking for a way out for both myself and Katerina. She is a
singular character – such a
perfect and excruciating balance of acting and being acted upon. A brilliant
and devastating novel that will not let me go.’ ~ Myfanwy Jones, author of Leap
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