The Deep Green Sea

<h3><strong><em>The Deep Green Sea</em> - A Hauntingly Illustrated Literary Journey Through Myth and Memory Death and Rebirth.</strong></h3><p>? The Deep Green Sea is a premium Illustrated Novella of mythopoetic surrealist eco-feminist speculative fiction.</p><p></p><p><strong>Surreal and magical... like falling into a dream.</strong></p><p>- <em>Kate Ceberano Australian Musical Icon</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Equally harrowing as it is beautiful.</strong></p><p>- <em>Kate Walsh American Actress</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ashe writes in intoxicating ebbs and flows... a watery spell.</strong></p><p>- <em>The Debutante Feminist Surrealist Journal</em></p><p></p><p>In a far-off future after the Second Deluge a secret order of women-The Mirage-live secluded on an island hidden by tides and time.</p><p>Drifting between myth memory and ecological allegory <em>The Deep Green Sea</em> tells the dual tale of Orla a grieving acolyte searching for the Isle's sanctuary and Roe a Selkie child born in liminal shadow carrying a mysterious fate.</p><p>Through stunning lyrical prose and haunting artwork Kelsey Ashe crafts a modern myth that speaks to our longing for healing rebirth and reconnection with the natural world.</p><p></p><p>Written and illustrated by award-winning Australian artist <strong>Dr. Kelsey Ashe</strong> this novella is both a visual and literary odyssey.</p><ul><li>260 pages</li><li>55 original illustrations</li></ul><p></p><p><strong>For readers of</strong>: <em>Women Who Run With the Wolves</em> <em>The Mists of Avalon</em> <em>Angela Carter</em> <em>Clarissa Pinkola Estés Jeanette Winterson Sharon Blackie Ithel Coloquhon.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Genre</strong>: Mythic Fiction Sea Stories Feminist Fantasy Mysticism</p><p></p><p><strong>Themes</strong>: Grief and transformation sacred feminine ecological wisdom ritual soul journey post-apocalyptic sublime</p><p></p><p>Like living inside a painting and a poem all at once... - Reader Review</p><p></p><p>A story within a story and a dream within a dream...Intoxicating! - Reader Review</p><p></p><p>🌊 <em>The Deep Green Sea</em> is a surrealist fairytale and spiritual adventure that merges magical realism ecological allegory and the mythopoetic feminine.</p><p></p><p><strong>Genre tags</strong>: Mythic Fiction • Eco-Spiritual Fantasy • Feminist Surrealism • Illustrated Literary Fiction</p><p></p><p>A spellbinding homage to the daughter of a Selkie Kelsey Ashe continues to mesmerize across this ecological allegory. Her exquisitely illustrated <em>Deep Green Sea</em> will ferry readers off to Avalon. Imagine the break of Hokusai's wave in the chambers of a surrealist grotto. Or beach-combing Angela Carter's new wine in old bottles on an Antipodean shore.</p><p>- <em>Dr. Catriona McAra: Author Feminist Surrealism in the Contemporary Novel.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Surreal and Magical. Your book pulls me in and out of the present and I fall into your drawings as if I am inside the dream. Your words flow like water or a steady beating drum. And all colour evaporates it's just 'chiaroscuro' contrasting light and shadows. It's like being asleep and being woken with a phrase or command that suddenly causes you to remember.... Everything! It's beautiful.</span></p><p>- <em>Kate Ceberano AM: Singer/Songwriter.</em></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Premium Collector's Edition - Available Now</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p>