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The Distance Made of Water: A Modern Odyssey of Exile, Survival and Homecoming
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 28 2026
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Eight years ago, Silas Vane vanished at sea. Now his family must decide whether they truly want him back.
During the chaotic evacuation of a collapsing North African state, Cornish mariner Silas Vane disappeared along with the truth about what happened aboard his ship. Officially declared dead, he has since become everything from national hero to suspected criminal.
On the remote island of Innis Vey, his wife Mara is still fighting to preserve their home and boatyard. Silas's former friend, Dominic Rook, has filled the house with investors, lawyers and plans for a luxury development. Their son Theo, raised beneath the shadow of a father he barely remembers, has begun to suspect that Silas may still be alive.
Far across the Mediterranean, Silas is living under another name. He possesses evidence capable of exposing a powerful international shipping empire-but returning to Britain means crossing borders without an identity, confronting the people who died because of his decisions and escaping those determined to keep the past buried.
His greatest challenge will not be surviving the journey.
It will be discovering whether home still has a place for the man he has become.
Sweeping from Cornwall across the Mediterranean and through the hidden worlds of displaced people, private power and maritime rescue, The Distance Made of Water is a contemporary reimagining of Homer's Odyssey. It is a compelling literary adventure about marriage, fatherhood, guilt, survival and the treacherous distance between returning home and deserving to remain there.
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