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WHAT THE DEEP WATER KNOWS is the debut poetry collection from bestselling author Miranda Cowley Heller, a series of exquisite reflections on love in all its seasons.

In poetry that is quick-witted and lyrical, gentle and devastatingly frank, Cowley Heller contemplates time, marriage, and motherhood, and paints a moving portrait of a rich life.

‘A breathtaking collection… these poems map a woman’s life with extraordinary precision and skill… Heartbreaking, funny, poignant, hopeful – this is poetry that you didn’t know you needed but will change the way you see the world’ Daisy Goodwin, Bestselling author of The American Heiress

‘What the Deep Water Knows takes you on a shiningly intimate journey….the chaotic narrative of life and loss re-organized to a waltzing beat of poetry. Silken and barbed all at once’ Yael van der Wouden, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Safekeep

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A breathtaking collection… These poems map a woman’s life with extraordinary precision and skill. Heartbreaking, funny, poignant, hopeful – this is poetry that you didn’t know you needed but will change the way you see the world — Daisy Goodwin How I loved this. A collection of poems that manages to capture a woman’s life in its entirety with all its joy, mystery and harsh unexpected endings. What the Deep Waters Know broke my heart and healed it too. Fans of The Paper Palace will adore it. — Clare Leslie Hall Miranda’s poems are living breathing words that are raw, honest and thought provoking. Reading this collection felt like a key turning a tiny hidden lock within. Her poems are brilliant and intentional, you will no doubt come back to these pages time and time again — Jessica Urlichs, The Sunday Times bestselling author of Beautiful Chaos What the Deep Water Knows takes you on a shiningly intimate journey – you are reader and confidant and you only get to glimpse at what lies below the surface. The chaotic narrative of life and loss re-organized to a waltzing beat of poetry. Silken and barbed all at once — Yael van der Wouden, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of THE SAFEKEEP A life told in astonishing, unerring verses. The early poems are beautifully opaque, stones glimpsed in cloudy water. Lyrical, brutal, devastating, visionary-through verse a woman’s life emerges, gathers itself, is dismantled, and settles again. These stories are as precise and arresting as icy water — Sonya Walger, author of Lion