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Sea in the Metro

Jayne Tuttle
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781743797860
  • Weight: 360g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
  • Publication City/Country: AU
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

I am the worst person in the world.
Bad mother. Bad lover. Bad worker. Bad woman. Bad friend ...
 
An exploration of motherdom and ego, culture and art, love and pain, The Sea in the Metro tells the story of a new mother in Paris trying to make it work – and failing. What happens when the control you thought you had over your life is usurped by your nature?
 
Jayne was raised to believe she could have everything. Child, career, relationship, even a life in Paris. So why does she feel like a monster? As her ego wars with her natural instincts, Jayne searches for answers in friendship, the city, memories of her late mother, art, writing and New Wave films … and finds only more questions. There are parts of herself that parenthood won’t let her avoid.

Unsentimental and untamed, The Sea in the Metro is an unflinching excavation of modern womanhood that marks the thrilling return of an incredible talent in Australian literature.

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Praise for Paris or Die and My Sweet Guillotine:

‘Writing that is joltingly alive, beautiful and terrifying’ – Helen Garner
 
‘My new favourite writer’ – Lauren Elkin
 
‘The love child of Helen Garner and David Sedaris’ – Linda Jaivin
 
‘Jayne Tuttle’s writing is a delicious delight’ – Christos Tsiolkas
 
‘Emerging as one of our finest’ – The Australian
 
‘All nerve endings and noticing’ – Claire Thomas
 
‘A writer who has perfected her craft’ – Ceridwen Dovey

'Terrific, crisp writing … like a latter-day Bonjour Tristesse' – The Age
About Jayne Tuttle
Jayne Tuttle is a writer who splits her time between France and Australia. After graduating from the Lecoq Theatre School, she lived in Paris for more than a decade, working internationally as an actor and writer and publishing stories about life in Paris in newspapers, guides and magazines. She currently works for Paris advertising agencies as a bilingual copywriter. She published her first book Paris or Die in 2019, to critical acclaim.

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