In the open sea

Penelope Fitzgerald is an English writer, whom the Times newspaper included the fifty largest writers of the post -war period. In 1979, she was awarded the Buker Prize for the novel in the Open Sea, though she did not believe her victory until the last. But luck still smiled at her.

"In the Open Sea" - the story of a clash of several lives of such different people. Nenna, bogged down in the problems of the mother of two beautiful daughters, Maurice, a real dreamer and adventurer, young Martha, fascinated by Henry, a rich young man, in front of which the whole world is open. And other amazing inhabitants of floating houses, whose life passes on the water. Water, which can simultaneously become both paradise and hell