Praise for The Pages of the Sea "[A] finely observed debut." --Emily Donaldson, Globe and Mail "Hawk's coming-of-age story follows a young girl who's left with her sisters on an unnamed Caribbean island in the 1960s under the care of their aunts and cousins, after their mother sails to England in search of work as part of the so-called Windrush generation." --Globe and Mail, The Globe 100 "This fresh perspective on the Windrush generation uses dialect to convey [a] young child's thoughts with vivid immediacy." --Justine Jordan, Guardian Best Fiction of 2024 "The writing is confident and precise; evocative of the beauty of the Caribbean and full of sparkling observation." --The Guardian "A moving portrayal of a young girl's efforts to grow out of a state of melancholy and confusion and acquire self-confidence and assertiveness, despite her young age." --Ottawa Review of Books "Hawk's prose is beautiful, a lyrical and loving portrayal of an island and its people . A unique, scrappy, tender bildungsroman." --Kirkus Reviews "The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk is a sensitive, '60s-era coming of age novel .
a powerful lens into abandonment, childhood, and loss." --Jessica Poon, The BC Review "The Pages of the Sea a beautifully written and intimately imagined debut novel coming out of the Caribbean. Anne Hawk weaves a story rarely told, that of those left behind in the wake of migration to the 'motherland'. Intensely moving and lyrical, here is a story of our times, another piece of the mosaic of our fractured and remade Caribbean lives." --Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch "A stunning debut. It's great to see a new author championing in fiction the unheard voice of a child left behind in the Caribbean migration story of the 1960s. Beautifully told, The Pages of the Sea will resonate for many thousands." --Yvonne Bailey-Smith, author of The Day I Fell Off My Island "An evocative and at times heartbreaking work of Caribbean fiction filled with the colours and vibrancy of the islands and invested with a deeply personal humanity.
In The Pages of the Sea, Anne Hawk gives fresh form to the Windrush era and voice to its neglected narratives." --Anthony Joseph, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry "What can I say except I think this is a great novel? The story breaks your heart and, at the very same time, the writing heals it. Anne Hawk's vision is miraculously, tenderly lucid. Here is the other side of emigration--the story of one of those left behind representing the stories of so many. I can't think of a better depiction of the confusions and insights of girlhood." --Toby Litt, author of Patience.