In the depths

For Gretel's words were so important that in childhood she and her mother even invented a language that was their own. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating the dictionary entry.
She had not seen mother since I was 16, when they lived in a boat on Oxford canal. Memories of the past, long ago, worn down, after one phone call suddenly returned last winter on the water, a mysterious runaway boy, a strange elusive creature living on the river.

"In the depths" provoking debut novel with a surreal, eerie atmosphere. He will not leave you indifferent.