Author Event! Miranda Cowley Heller & Sonya Walger

About the book:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, comes a debut poetry collection that paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marriage to motherhood to divorce and beyond. 

“Breathtaking . . . will change the way you see the world.” —Daisy Goodwin, author of The American Heiress 

What the Deep Water Knows by Miranda Cowley Heller is a series of exquisite reflections on love in all its seasons. In poetry that is lyrical and quick-witted, gentle and devastatingly frank, Cowley Heller contemplates time, marriage, and motherhood. Her words will envelop you and bring you to the water’s emotional edge:

“I stand in bare feet at the break,

icy water soaking my cuffs.

A scoop of pelicans dives on bait fish

– relentless, cruel.

Kelp fronds mourn them in the glassy deep.

A hermit crab creeping on to shore

skittles its way across the sand.

In the blue, a soot tern wings loop-the-loops.

And I lift my face into the wind.”

from “Things the Tide Has Discarded”

About the authors:

Miranda Cowley Heller was raised in New York City and Cape Cod. Her debut novel The Paper Palace was a number one New York Times bestseller in the US, a Sunday Times bestseller in the UK, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She has worked as a senior vice president and head of drama series at HBO, developing and overseeing such shows as The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, and Big Love, among others. What the Deep Water Knows is her first poetry collection.

Sonya Walger is an English actress, writer and podcaster. Walger began her career as a film and television actress in 1998 and is perhaps best known for her role as Penny Widmore in the ABC series Lost and later for starring as Molly Cobb in the Apple TV+ original For All Mankind.A student of English literature at Christ Church College at the University of Oxford and host of the literature podcast Bookish, Walger is a long-time literary enthusiast whose debut novel Lion is a work of autofiction about her relationship with her father. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

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