![]() ![]() So that everything else, becomes everything after. Below Deck is about the moments that haunt us, the moments that fan out like ripples through the deep. When she meets Hugo, the wind changes, and her memories are dust blown into shapes. Moving to London, Oli's life at sea is buried. In the darkness below deck, she learns that at sea, no one can hear you scream. Four years later, Oli, fluent in the language of the sea, is the only woman among men on a yacht delivery from Noumea to Auckland. With Mac and Maggie, Oli learns to navigate a life upon open ocean and the world flowers into colours she's never seen before. When she wakes on a boat with no recollection of how she got there, she accepts the help of two strangers who change the course of her future forever. Estranged from her parents, and living with her grandfather who is drowning in sadness, Oli faces the reality of life beyond university alone. We choose to breathe, don't we? Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. The beginning of the story I tell myself in order to survive. ![]() It's a beginning a new beginning my beginning. And then, just like that, a thought bubbles inside me. ![]()
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