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'Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. Estranged from her parents, and living with her grandfather who is drowning in sadness, Oli faces the reality of life beyond university alone. When she wakes on a boat with no recollection of how she got there, she accepts the help of two strangers who change the course of her future forever. With Mac and Maggie, Oli learns to navigate a life upon open ocean and the world flowers into colours she's never seen before.
'Four years later, Oli, fluent in the language of the sea, is the only woman among men on a yacht delivery from Noumea to Auckland. In the darkness below deck, she learns that at sea, no one can hear you scream.
'Moving to London, Oli's life at sea is buried. When she meets Hugo, the wind changes, and her memories are dust blown into shapes. Reminding her of everything. Below Deck is about the moments that haunt us, the moments that fan out like ripples through the deep. So that everything else becomes everything after.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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- Sound recording.
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Works about this Work
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NRB Readers’ Top 10 for 2020
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , December 2020; -
Metaphorical Icebergs Rise to the Surface
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14 March 2020; (p. 20)
— Review of Below Deck 2020 single work novel'Olivia, the narrator of Below Deck, announces her death on the first page of the novel. She is barely 30, but she knows it is her time.' (Introduction)
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Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 420 2020;
— Review of Below Deck 2020 single work novel'Below Deck is a stunning literary novel. This is a poetic work that can be read aloud just as easily as it can be read in silence. Sophie Hardcastle wrote Below Deck in 2018 when she was a Provost’s Scholar in English Literature at Worcester College at the University of Oxford. As she reveals in the acknowledgments, she read a draft aloud to her professor, an experience that no doubt consolidated the flow of her prose.' (Introduction)
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Sophie Hardcastle : Below Deck
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2020;
— Review of Below Deck 2020 single work novel'Sophie Hardcastle’s second novel explores the lure of the sea, and the cost of violence.'
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Where the Voices Aren't : Moral Accountability at the End of the Earth
2020
single work
autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , February no. 67 2020; (p. 251-256)
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Sophie Hardcastle : Below Deck
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2020;
— Review of Below Deck 2020 single work novel'Sophie Hardcastle’s second novel explores the lure of the sea, and the cost of violence.'
-
Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 420 2020;
— Review of Below Deck 2020 single work novel'Below Deck is a stunning literary novel. This is a poetic work that can be read aloud just as easily as it can be read in silence. Sophie Hardcastle wrote Below Deck in 2018 when she was a Provost’s Scholar in English Literature at Worcester College at the University of Oxford. As she reveals in the acknowledgments, she read a draft aloud to her professor, an experience that no doubt consolidated the flow of her prose.' (Introduction)
-
Metaphorical Icebergs Rise to the Surface
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14 March 2020; (p. 20)
— Review of Below Deck 2020 single work novel'Olivia, the narrator of Below Deck, announces her death on the first page of the novel. She is barely 30, but she knows it is her time.' (Introduction)
-
Where the Voices Aren't : Moral Accountability at the End of the Earth
2020
single work
autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , February no. 67 2020; (p. 251-256) -
NRB Readers’ Top 10 for 2020
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , December 2020;
