The Water Strider

Linda Saule is an author with a keen sense of language and plot, combining in her work the precision of a linguistic translator and the imagery of a poet. Her prose has 'absorbed' the atmosphere, on the one hand, of Joyce's 'Dubliners' and, on the other, of Cecilia Ahern's novels. When the body of an unknown man is found on the misty shores of Rosses Point, Susan, a host of nighttime radio broadcasts, decides to uncover the whole truth about the deceased. He is nobody to her, but the memory of her father, lost at sea and washed away by the ocean, does not let her rest. Perhaps finding answers now will finally allow Susan to release the ghosts of the past, live in the present, and let happiness into her heart. "Essentially, there are not that many differences between Irish Susan and some Russian Svetlana: the same fears, the same problems, and loneliness — the very same. Perhaps that’s why the novel The Water Strider is so captivating. And, by the way, the way out of this state and the path to happiness is also more or less universal — through self-improvement." — Mikhail Labkovsky "The name of the deceased is unknown, as is whether he was a suicide or a victim of a crime. The further the investigation goes, the more questions arise! The plot is based on a real event, the mystery of which is still unsolved. However, in the novel, each mystery will receive a convincing explanation. Yet, this is not just a detective story — it is also a story about the fear of death, the thirst for life, about love and why we come into this world." — Olga Sulchinskaya, Psychologies