Woman at Sea (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781784706197)

Catherine Poulain has worked in fish farms in Iceland, as a farm worker in Canada, as a barmaid in Hong Kong, and she spent 10 years fishing in Alaska. Woman at Sea is her first novel. Adriana Hunter won the 2011 Scott-Moncrieff Prize for her translation of Véronique Olmi's Bord de Mer (Beside the Sea), and the 2013 French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize for her translation of Hervé Le Tellier's Electrico W, and has been shortlisted twice for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.