Sign-In
Cart
The Sea Painting
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781918422054
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Gillian Marshall is a hardworking potter, drifting towards mid-life. Captivated by the sea and a keen sailor, she attempts to revive her relationship with her husband, Mark, on a sailing trip, but the past intrudes to disrupt everything. She unexpectedly encounters Colin, a lover from her art school days. Soon afterwards, the past turns up again. She is visited by Ben, the estranged son of her best friend, Stella.
The narrative unfolds in the past and the present as Gillian navigates her close relationships and the entangled circumstances of her life, facing both her passions and uncertainties.
This is a story of friendship, love and loyalty, loss and resilience that reveals the subtle contradictions of desire and will and of strength and fallibility. It tells how one woman experiences power, both that of others and also her own, and where that takes her. Gillian knows the force of the sea and how hard it can be to steer a course through it.
'This is a novel that is liberating and sad and joyful. There is no sentiment here. Rather, there is a character we all root for as she faces tough choices. We want her to rediscover her passion for art and life. Sue Cox has crafted a subtle, moving and intricate novel and I can't recommend it highly enough.'
Ian Nettleton. Winner of the Bath Novel Award 2023.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Paperback