All Those Seas
One summer afternoon, Julieta, a seven-year-old girl disappears from a beach on the coast of the Balearic Island of Formentera. Her eleven-year-old sister Greta is unable to stop it from happening.
Twenty years later, an adult Greta who lives in London returns to Formentera for the first time after the tragedy to care for her ill grandmother. She’ll also be reunited with her mother on the island, whom she hasn’t seen since she was young, and Max, a friend bound to her by the strength of a shared childhood.
Confronted with the ghosts of her past, she must navigate her mother's silences, her grandmother's legends, and her own fragmented memories.
How do we make sense of everything we have experienced? What happened that summer afternoon in Formentera?
All Those Seas is a poignant novel about how facing our deepest fears can have healing powers. This captivating tale explores family bonds, the weight of secrets, and the sea's ability to both destroy and renew.
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Original Language
CATALAN | Columna
Translation Rights
GERMAN | Thiele Verlag
SPANISH | Destino
Reviews
“To read Laia Aguilar is to create words with new meanings, to imagine coral-streaked mermaids, hidden treasures and a grandmother’s legends. It is to understand that growing up is complicated and that so are families. That forgiveness is necessary, but it takes time. And that magic exists even in the toughest of moments.” Abril Rocamora, El Periódico
"Her works might seem sweet, but they always have an underlying drama, a narrative engine, and the light of redemption." Lluís Llort, El Punt Avui
"Laia Aguilar's novel is tinted with a kind of magic realism that proves that certain actions of the past can be redeemed through the power of words." Martí Gironell, bestselling author of Stars in His Eyes
