by Luanne Rice
Acknowledgments
Deep thanks to Nita Taublib, Tracy Devine, and Kerri Buckley, and to everyone at Bantam Books.
Much appreciation to Andrea Cirillo and all at the Jane Rotrosen Agency.
I’m ever so appreciative to Sarah Walker for every single thing.
Continuing and endless gratitude to Twigg Crawford.
Thank you to Sam Ekwurtzel for a year of art.
I am so appreciative to Jim Weikart for taking such good care.
I am grateful to my sister and brother-in-law, Maureen and Olivier Onorato, for their knowledge of seahorses and love of the sea and all marine creatures.
Peace and love to Jason Hancock and Amy Rhilinger, and the earth-loving Cooper.
Thank you to Pat Peter for her wisdom and generosity, and to the inimitable Emily Goodman.
Endless thanks to Proctor II and its wonderful staff, with special thanks to Dr. Cathleen Gould, Dr. Sherry Winternitz, Toby Hartman, Julie Twohig, Nina McCloskey, Rob Peirce, Paula Burley Maxine Peake, Laura Marble, Erika Skorupski, Deborah Ford, and especially for lending me her guitar, Christina Dafnoulelis.
About the Author
LUANNE RICE is the author of twenty-eight novels, most recently The Geometry of Sisters, Last Kiss, Light of the Moon, What Matters Most, The Edge of Winter, Sandcastles, Summer of Roses, Summer’s Child, and Silver Bells. She lives in New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut.
The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places,
and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used
fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events,
or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Luanne Rice
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Bantam Books,
an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Rice, Luanne.
The deep blue sea for beginners : a novel / Luanne Rice. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-553-90674-5
1. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Psychological fiction. 3. Domestic fiction.
I. Title.
PS3568.I289D44 2009
813′.54—dc22
2009013277
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