The Deep Green Sea Paperback Signed Author Copy
✨ The Deep Green Sea
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A Premium Illustrated Novella; A Spiritual Awakening and Haunting Literary Fiction. A dark night of the soul and its deep philosophical and spiritual lessons. Mythopoetic, surrealist, eco-feminist speculative fiction.
“Surreal and magical... like falling into a dream.”
– Kate Ceberano, Australian Musical Icon
“Equally harrowing as it is beautiful.”
– Kate Walsh, American Actress
“Ashe writes in intoxicating ebbs and flows... a watery spell.”
– The Debutante Feminist Surrealist Journal
In a far-off future, after the Second Deluge, a secret order of women—The Mirage—live secluded on an island hidden by tides and time.
Drifting between myth, memory, and ecological allegory, The Deep Green Sea tells the dual tale of Orla, a grieving acolyte searching for the Isle’s sanctuary, and Roe, a Selkie child born in liminal shadow, carrying a mysterious fate.
Themes: Grief and transformation, sacred feminine, ecological wisdom, ritual, soul journey, post-apocalyptic sublime.
“Like living inside a painting and a poem all at once...” — Reader Review
🌊 The Deep Green Sea is a surrealist fairytale and spiritual adventure that merges magical realism, ecological allegory, and the mythopoetic feminine.
Written and illustrated by award-winning Australian artist Dr. Kelsey Ashe, this novella is both a visual and literary odyssey.
260 pages
55 original illustrations
Ideal for lovers of Paul Coelho, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, Ithel Colquhon, Marion Bradley and Sharon Blackie
Genre tags: Mythic Fiction • Eco-Spiritual Fantasy • Feminist Surrealism • Illustrated Literary Fiction
“A spellbinding homage to the daughter of a Selkie, Kelsey Ashe continues to mesmerize across this ecological allegory. Her exquisitely illustrated Deep Green Sea will ferry readers off to Avalon. Imagine the break of Hokusai’s wave in the chambers of a surrealist grotto. Or beach-combing Angela Carter’s "new wine in old bottles" on an Antipodean shore.”
– Dr. Catriona McAra: Author, Feminist Surrealism in the Contemporary Novel.
“The Deep Green Sea is a challenging and mind-bending tale that commands profound self-introspection. Both a questing adventure and spiritual journey, the story accounts for times in our lives when everything is turned completely upside down by grief or traumatic circumstance. Equally harrowing as it is beautiful, the otherworldly setting Ashe has created is full of strong female characters who forge on through every setback.”
– Kate Walsh: American Actress, Grey’s Anatomy, Emily in Paris, et al. New York, USA.
“The Deep Green Sea is a deeply mystical tale of life and death, birth and rebirth, and the path we walk as celestial beings between worlds. The journey of Roe, Orla, and the many guides who make part of their story come alive, provides the reader with a rich account of what it means to accept our light and fear, to know how destiny and fate shape our human journey, and the understanding that our power resides deep within our own soul.”
– Claire Falcon: Author, Psychic Medium, Intuition Teacher. Berlin, Germany
