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Above Us the Sea is an ode to the tangled remains of lost loves and the imprints left by grieving souls, yearning for connection.

This is a story of aching and emerging, intimacy and distance, set against an increasingly hostile landscape.

Sheila Heti collected half a millions words from a decade's worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.

Everything from the meaning of cosmonauts to the new ideas, writers and artists that populate the sparkling international world of the sixties and seventies are considered and transformed into jewels of insight, delight and devastation. Sincere and playful, exhilarating and contemplative, Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles opens up a new way of seeing the world.