Sylvie Cathrall writes stories of hope and healing with healthy doses of wonder and whimsy. She holds a graduate degree in odd Victorian art and has handled more than a few nineteenth-century letters (with great care). Sylvie married her former pen pal and lives in the mountains, where she dresses impractically and dreams of the sea.
Praise for A Letter to the Luminous Deep: ""An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore: nosy and loving families, epistolary romance, gorgeous worldbuilding, and anxious scholars doing their best to meet the world with kindness and curiosity."" --Freya Marske ""Cathrall's debut caught me up on a wave of whimsy and swept me away with its charm. A story to be cherished."" --Lyra Selene ""Like nothing I've read before. The heartfelt intimacy of the epistolary narrative, juxtaposed with the magnificent oceanic world-building, results in a novel that is at once deeply human and mind-bogglingly imaginative. The lovingly crafted voices of the characters kept me hooked from beginning to end."" --Megan Bannen ""A shimmering, delicately crafted delight of a book, steeped in love for the wonder of nature and the vagaries of archival research."" --H. G. Parry