Author’s review:
❝Although essentially the story of a young girl’s transition to adulthood after surviving an horrific air crash, ‘Waterwings’ condenses a tale of epic proportions into a little over three-hundred pages. We share the thoughts of an alternative teen who fears the world will drown in a rising tide of bullshit; a screwed up drug dealer honest enough to see himself as a worthless victim; and a grieving couple – trying to solve a mystery – sailing across an ocean of hope and despair.
Sweeping across the globe in a nation-transcending voyage of discovery, this is the stuff of classic adventure. Controversially, it breathes the rarefied air of forbidden passion and questions what has become of democracy. It puts modern-day human beings in a place where they seemingly no longer belong – an isolated and tranquil ‘paradise’ where the complex problems of modern living are exchanged for the more mundane variety; but the world and all its contradictions are still out there, troubling the survivors from a distance.
Lives transformed by terror at thirty-eight thousand feet, mesh together in extraordinary circumstances; but which, if any of the survivors are implicated in the cause of the disaster? And why? The sinister truth is gradually unraveled in the manner of a dramatized true story, but Waterwings is a topical, amusing, (and at times, steamily erotic) flight of fantasy; as alternative and yet, as approachable as its honest and fascinating characters.❞
