The Sea: A Love Story

In this deeply personal and entirely original love story, Sophie Blackall explores the ocean and the stories it holds through memory, natural observation, history, and art. A 24-day voyage becomes a current carrying her between the shipboard romance of her parents and reflections on her own life and loves, revealing the sea as a source of wonder, longing, and connection.

Told across daily chapters that move between past and present, this illustrated memoir encompasses shipwrecks and sturgeons, cyanometers and poetry, science and family history. More than 100 full-color images make The Sea both an intimate narrative and an absorbing work of art from one of today’s most celebrated creators.