Ea has always felt like an outsider. Suffering from a type of deafness, she cannot master the rituals that unite her pod of spinner dolphins. When tragedy strikes her family and Ea knows she's partly to blame, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice and leave. As Ea ventures out without the protecton of her pod, she discovers dangers everywhere. But just as she is coming to terms with her solitude, a chance encounter witha group of arrogant bottlenoses will irrevocably alter the course of her life. In her terrifying, propulsive novel, Laline Paull explores the true meaning of family, survival, sacrifice--the harmony and tragedy of the pod--within an ocean that is no longer the sanctuary it once was, one which reflects a world all too recognisable to our own.