SuitabookDeep Water
Lu Hersey
- Reading
- Consider checking in before or during the early disappearance scenes, particularly if separation or frightening uncertainty is difficult. Afterwards, discuss how folklore, family history and other people’s labels influence Danni’s choices; the ending and final consequences remain unclear.
- Themes
- Family secrecy and belonging: Danni investigates her mother’s disappearance and discovers previously unknown relatives and family history. The book leaves its stance open to more than one reading.
- Othering and social judgement: Some people label Danni or her group as harmful, while others treat her as a monster. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Folklore, power and responsibility: Danni discovers unusual abilities and a connection to Celtic or selkie-related folklore while trying to help her family. Folklore functions as the imaginative framework for the mystery and Danni’s emerging identity; the moral meaning of the powers remains open.
- Worth knowing
- The book includes a parent’s disappearance, hospitalisation or amnesia, frightening uncertainty, a reported killer, threatening or hostile people, social rejection, family separation, supernatural danger and a subtle romantic thread.