sound dive into the depths – Liberation

A lonely submariner sees her daily life shaken by an all-consuming love passion.

Adrian lives in a steel bubble. For months, she probed with her “golden ear” the seabed in search of a threat, of any object for the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine to avoid. The daily life of the forty-year-old is well regulated there, reassuring because it is stable and mechanical. But when she has to emerge, she struggles to find her place and misses the calm of the dark waters. Her last return to earth is all the more brutal as she learns of her father's death during his mission. Completely losing her bearings, the soldier heads for the other side of the Channel. Listen to the living waters echoes the Courage that rivers need (Albin Michel, 2017), another book by Emmanuelle Favier. From the Breton plains to the Balkans, Adrian like Manushe are strong and masculine women, whose convictions quickly shatter.

“Clinking of the gimbals, muttering of the pumps”

The story is an auditory and suffocating dive. Just as this specialist in acoustic analysis listens to the seas, we listen attentively to «[…] this complicated sound fabric which amalgamated the slowed roar of the engines, the clicking of the gimbals, the muttering of the pumps and the machines and from which emanated, from time to time, a human voice distorted by a poor quality microphone conveying some message, order or alert.. The noise