Sea Remembers

Siobhán Malone wakes before her alarm on a Wednesday in January with a sound under the house trying to become a song.She closes the lid on it and goes to the lake anyway. She is a secondary school teacher in Westmeath, a cold-water swimmer, a woman who has learned to name only the griefs large enough to justify complaint. The small ones she keeps. The lake gives her twenty minutes a week when none...