Beyond That, the Sea: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Rooted in the home-front upheavals of World War II, but it’s also a timeless exploration of what it means to create a family, of how dreams can die and be reborn in surprising ways."

  — New York Times Book Review

• "Quietly stunning, with finely drawn characters and vivid descriptions.”

  — Shelf Awareness

• “Readers will feel the pull of new fictional friends from the first to the last page, and long afterward."

  — Booklist

• “Readers will be riveted.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Beautifully written and narrated…Ell Potter…creates believable distinctions between well-developed characters of different ages from different locales. Listeners will be captivated.”

  — AudioFile

• "A young’s woman’s family loyalties are divided as she leaves her London home for Boston during WWII in Spence-Ash’s magnetic debut... Readers will be riveted.

  — Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review

• Beyond That, the Sea is a shimmering dive into a lost past. With deft, beautiful prose, Laura Spence-Ash brings us into the worlds—both inner and outer—of two families in wartime, and over the years that follow. This novel is as haunting as it is accomplished.

  — Meg Wolitzer, The New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion

• This gorgeous novel, about the profound impact on children and families of even the most benign forms of displacement, marks the debut of a very gifted writer. I adored Laura Spence-Ash's characters and deeply admired her precise, resonant prose. Beyond That, the Sea is a marvel.

  — Ann Packer, author of The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and The Children’s Crusade

• "Beyond That, the Sea is a lovely, addictive novel. I was absorbed by the interesting premise—an eleven year old girl arrives to live, temporarily, with a new family—and by the myriad love stories that change and deepen over the decades the novel covers. Laura Spence-Ash has written a gorgeous novel filled with wonderful characters.

  — Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Dear Edward

• In this beautiful novel, Laura Spence-Ash renders the last century with painterly precision. Beyond That, the Sea tells the story of a British girl taken in by a prosperous New England family in the Second World War, and of the legacy of the intimate relationships that ensue—a story as rich and vital as life.

  — Claire Messud, bestselling author of The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs

• In this exquisite novel, Laura Spence-Ash weaves a beautiful mosaic of voices, each a perfect postcard exploring home, love, loss and belonging that will entrance readers until the final, heartwarming page.

  — Hannah Tinti, author of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley and The Good Thief

• What a wonderful novel! I loved Beatrix as a girl, discovering America, and perhaps even more as a young woman, back in post-war London. Spence-Ash writes with such insight about her characters on both sides of the Atlantic and she is a mistress of suspense. I was deeply sorry to reach the last page.

  — Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in the Field