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The Deep

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'Beautifully written, thoroughly absorbing and totally terrifying.' C.J. Tudor, bestselling author of The Chalk Man

Someone, or something, is haunting the Titanic.

Deaths and disappearances have plagued the vast liner from the moment she began her maiden voyage on 10 April 1912. Four days later, caught in what feels like an eerie, unsettling twilight zone, some passengers - including millionaire Madeleine Astor and maid Annie Hebbley - are convinced that something sinister is afoot. And then disaster strikes.

Four years later and the world is at war. Having survived that fateful night, Annie is now a nurse on board the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, now refitted as a hospital ship. And she is about to realise that those demons from her past and the terrors of that doomed voyage have not finished with her yet . . .

Bringing together Faustian pacts, the occult, tales of sirens and selkies with themes of guilt and revenge, desire and destiny, The Deep offers a thrilling, tantalizing twist on one of the world's most famous tragedies.

© Alma Katsu 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critics Review

The way Alma Katsu weaves the true story of the Titanic and her sister ship, Britannic, with this dark, terrifying tale of possession and haunting is phenomenal. Part history, part drama, part love story, part creepy-as-heck ghost tale, with chills icier than the watery depths, The Deep is beautifully written, thoroughly absorbing and totally terrifying.'
C.J. TUDOR, author of The Chalk Man
At once both tragic and chilling, The Deep perfectly blends psychological thriller and eerie gothic ghost story to create something truly haunting, drawing you down into its dark depths before finally letting you up for air.
SARAH PINBOROUGH, author of Behind Her Eyes
Another masterly supernatural reimagining of a historical tragedy: the sinking of the Titanic and her sister ship, the Britannic. Eerie, haunting, and filled with suspense, The Deep is a whirlpool of a novel that pulls you in and doesn't let go.
DANIELLE TRUSSONI, author of the Angelology series and The Ancestor
An incredibly ambitious setting, prose as ornate as the boat, mood as ghostly as Gothic, and what must have been enough research to build a ship of her own . . . The Deep is thrilling, rich, frightening, unsettling, and, best of all, told from the heart . . . The Hunger was fantastic, but The Deep is divine . . . a brilliant author.
JOSH MALERMAN, author of Bird Box
Elegant and eerie. Alma Katsu really is something rather special.
JOHN CONNOLLY
THE DEEP weaves together the true story of the Titanic and its sister ship Britannic, with a love story and a creepy tale of the supernatural.
SFX
An all-too-human tale of obsessive love that crosses the boundary . . . between the material realm and the spiritual.
Financial Times
Deftly mashes up spellbinding historical fiction, adroit commentary on class and gender, and a classic yet surprising ghost story . . . truly haunting.
PAUL TREMBLAY, author of The Cabin at the End of the World
This imaginative spin on the tale is full of surprises . . . a satisfyingly spooky blend of history and horror.
Sunday Mirror
Takes us back to the final days of the Titanic, her sister ship the Britannic, and the mysterious woman who links them both. In a haunting story of love and revenge, Alma Katsu blends the paranormal and historical fiction as only she can—a spellbinding tale where desire knows no bounds and death is only a beginning. Another fantastic story from the author of The Hunger.
J D BARKER, author of The Sixth Wicked Child
Author Alma Katsu
Narrator Jane Collingwood
Duration 12 hours and 50 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473580381
Format Audiobook
Publisher Transworld
Genre Esoteric thriller, Fiction: gothic, Historical crime and mysteries, Occult fiction, Sea stories
Availability AU, GB, IE

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