Catherine Poulain (2018)
Catherine Poulain (2018)

Catherine
Poulain

Catherine Poulain has lived on the road and on the sea for most of her life working in fish farms in Iceland, on farms in Canada, in bars in Hong Kong, in naval shipyards in the US. She spent ten years fishing in Alaska before returning to her native France. Woman at Sea is her first novel.

 

Catherine Poulain has lived on the road and on the sea for most of her life working in fish farms in Iceland, on farms in Canada, in bars in Hong Kong, in naval shipyards in the US. She spent ten years fishing in Alaska before returning to her native France. Woman at Sea is her first novel.

 

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