How do we find ourselves when we lose others? This beautiful novel explores the life of Isabelle, a woman in her twenties, in the lead-up to, and aftermath of, the deaths of two important men: Matthew Smith, the love of her life, and her "gorgeous, sad father", Tom Airly.
Swirling and intensely focused, both an epic and a fable, metaphysical and colloquial, the book charts Isabelle's interior, emotional journey to the "continent of self", as well as her actual travels - from childhood in Sydney, to love in the vast spaces off the western Australian coast, to grief and eventually hope in Paris.
'Isabelle the Navigator' is about love, compassion, family, about secrets, madness and betrayal: about Isabelle, the extraordinarily vital woman who emerges through it all.
