When two women and a dog set off on a holiday, they have no inkling of
what s to come. They wake to find the river has crept up silently during
the night. Trapped by floodwater, they devise escape routes only to be
faced with more obstacles at every turn. Only the dog remains calm. This
poetic novella grips you with its language, its pace, and its anxieties.
The word "limen" is defined as a threshold below which a stimulus is not
perceived. In Susan s Hawthorne s verse novel, there is the threat of
the rising waters the women s safety is above the threshold of
perception. This definition feeds the suspense and tension of this book.
However, the word also suggests a transition, a state, a threshold
between earth and sky, between day and night, between water and heat,
survival and drowning and it is these paired states, together with many
more that also drive narrative."