Denis Thériault is an award-winning author and screenwriter living in Montreal, Canada. His much-loved novels The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman and The Postman’s Fiancée (Oneworld, 2017) have enjoyed international success. First published in Canada in 2003, The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea is his debut novel.

‘A dreamy, underwater experience, this brief novel by Thériault is a hallucinogenic dive into another realm… Here is a fragile poetry, charming and childlike in its simplicity, yet profound on the unfathomable depths of loss, of love.’

Denis Thériault is an award-winning author and screenwriter living in Montreal, Canada. His much-loved novels The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman and The Postman’s Fiancée (Oneworld, 2017) have enjoyed international success. First published in Canada in 2003, The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea is his debut novel.

‘A dreamy, underwater experience, this brief novel by Thériault is a hallucinogenic dive into another realm… Here is a fragile poetry, charming and childlike in its simplicity, yet profound on the unfathomable depths of loss, of love.’

Denis Thériault is an award-winning author and screenwriter living in Montreal, Canada. His much-loved novels The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman and The Postman’s Fiancée (Oneworld, 2017) have enjoyed international success. First published in Canada in 2003, The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea is his debut novel.

‘A dreamy, underwater experience, this brief novel by Thériault is a hallucinogenic dive into another realm… Here is a fragile poetry, charming and childlike in its simplicity, yet profound on the unfathomable depths of loss, of love.’