Girl Underwater

How it reads

Girl Underwater is romance (survival romance, specifically), and its dominant mood is adventurous. It's driven by momentum, discovery and getting into trouble. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in the wilderness or at sea, in the present day, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are survival, love and loss and grief. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 304 pages it's a quick read. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.