Grasping at Water
by Carmel Bendon
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Pub Date Sep 18 2018 | Archive Date Oct 12 2018
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Description
When a young, unidentified woman is pulled alive and well from Sydney Harbour in 2013, the connections to another woman – found in similar circumstances forty years earlier – present psychiatrist Kathryn Brookley with a terrible decision as the events of the present and past begin to mirror each other and the gap between truth and illusion shrinks.
When the young woman goes further and declares that she has lived continuously since coming to ‘understanding’ in the 14th century, her vivid accounts of life, love, childbirth, and loss in the Middle Ages seem so authentic that they test Kathryn’s scientific objectivity to the limit. As Kathryn delves she discovers that she is not the only one whose habitual assumptions about life have been torn asunder by an apparent experience of the miraculous in connection with the mystery woman.
Advance Praise
"Carmel Bendon's superb novel takes the reader from the most intriguing premise into a world of mysterious possibility that skirts mysticism, the limits of spirituality and the different ways in which we all approach the truth. In a world of carefully spun stories that are whispered in dreams and to doctors and nuns, can we ever really reach a rational conclusion in a world where nothing can ever be certain? And can we ever firmly conclude the facts that lie at the heart of fantasies? This is a tremendous, playful and richly poetic book that speaks to the storyteller inside all of us." --Walter Mason, author of Destination Saigon and Destination Cambodia
"Grasping at Water beguiles with its strong sense of mystery, history, character and place. When an inscrutable young woman is plucked, alive, from the glistening waters of Sydney Harbour, her psychiatrist, Kathryn Brookley, becomes immersed in a tale that defies logic and time. As Kathryn's quest for truth morphs into a voyage of self discovery, this spiritual page-turner draws you under its spell." -- Michele Seminara, Verity La
"Finely written historical mysticism entwined with a modern mystery, Carmel Bendon's stunning debut sizzles with originality and intrigue. Grasping at Water is the thinking-person's thriller that's sure to whet the literary appetites of readers the world over." -- Amanda Hickey, journalist and filmmaker
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