Surface Diving

“Deceptive memory makes a person. And so, through the details of love, beauty, loss and near-loss, a woman’s existence is sketched out here. Intense and moving” Teresa Ciabatti.

It’s as if we were leafing through the album of another person, another life. Except that, photo by photo, her memories become mine, her different ages mine, her melancholies mine”. Enrica Tesio

A novel that proceeds by story, where not everything is literally true, but where everything is intimately true and raw. A woman in her fifties draws on the written page the framework of her own existence. The one she lived? The one she imagined? She was a much-loved but very lonely child; a restless young girl; a wife and mother who experienced moments of happiness and deep sadness.
From seemingly insignificant details – a tweed coat, a slipper, the wake of a small aeroplane – Paola Farinetti dives into the sea of memories and emerges, shedding light on the meaning of existence.