Above Us The Sea 🌊 by Ania Card is a queer paean to Cardiff, music, and otherness, coming July 11th 2024. Meet Toni; who's just got involved with retired Welsh boxer Gav and his Polish boyfriend, Karol, an aspiring photographer. Their entanglement comes unravelled and those wicked scars leave a trail of yearning and intimacy in this painfully beautiful debut. 'What inspired me to write my novel was the desire to explore the idea of a friendship that feels like love, its blurred lines, it falling between places, between friendship and love, between two countries, two languages and explore the same notion in gender expression and sexuality, capture the space in between, explore the question without giving an answer. "When I started the novel I was in my late twenties and that time made me reflect on the past decade, the many different lives that felt like hardly connected fragments, and I wanted to explore the fragmentary character of our lives, how disconnected it can feel, and ho...