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Ninety Fathoms

Ninety Fathoms

A survey ship, a disputed chart, and two sisters who spend a summer measuring the same water and disagreeing about what is under it.

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Cover ninety fathoms

Harbour sky — The stretch of coast the Cormorant surveys

Book ribbon — The Norwegian edition, second printing

In the summer of 1974 the Cormorant spends nine weeks running lines off the north west coast. On board are a hydrographer, her younger sister, and a crew who would rather neither of them were there.

Ninety Fathoms is the book that has travelled furthest, and the one people write to me about most. It is about measurement, and about how two people can be scrupulously accurate and still describe different worlds.

Project info

Published: 2022
Publisher: Ferryman Press, Dublin
Extent: 392 pages
Rights: Rights sold in 14 languages

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Nell Ardagh writes novels and essays from a first-floor room above the Claddagh in Galway. Four books, one letter a month, and a standing appointment with the sea at seven.

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