The Water Here Is Never Blue

Signed first edition, first printing of The Water Here Is Never Blue: Intrigue and Lies from an Uncommon Childhood by Shelagh Plunkett, published by Viking/Penguin Canada in 2013. This hardcover copy includes its dust jacket and is flat signed by Plunkett on the title page, without a visible personalization. A “SIGNED BY AUTHOR” sticker remains affixed to the front of the jacket.

Plunkett's literary memoir follows her unconventional coming of age after her Canadian family moved to Guyana and Indonesia during the political upheavals of the 1970s. Recounting a childhood shaped by distant places, danger, family secrecy, and questions surrounding her civil-engineer father's work, it combines memoir, travel writing, and an investigation into the mysteries of her own family history.

The memoir grew from Plunkett's prize-winning creative-nonfiction work and was shortlisted for both the Quebec Writers' Federation's Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction and Concordia University First Book Prize.

The seller grades this copy Very Good. The dust jacket is now protected in a removable clear plastic cover and shows light handling or edge wear consistent with the stated grade. The photographed title, copyright, and author biography pages appear clean in the visible areas, with no obvious highlighting, ownership writing, stains, tears, or foxing. Please refer to the supplied photographs for the best copy-specific condition details.