

Sea State
A Memoir
Author: Tabitha Lasley
Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown
Unabridged: 6 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 12/07/2021
Author: Tabitha Lasley
Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown
Unabridged: 6 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 12/07/2021
Tabitha Lasley was a journalist for ten years. She has lived in London, Johannesburg, and Aberdeen. This is her first book.
I'm a little tardy, but apparently it's my job to rescue this book from some of the crappy reviews you all have been leaving here. You're all wrong! (Haha.) "Sea State" is beautifully written, utterly unpredictable, and, yes, you were right about one thing: not at all the book it set out to be. It b......more
Caveat Emptor This review is written by a member of the merchant marine with over 30 years of experience with dangerous blue-collar jobs that demand a double life, with three or four months on and three or four months off. This experience comes with an abundance of having to listen to frustrated men......more
Being a female offshore worker I was very intrigued when I saw this book advertised. The author wished to see what men were like without having women around and although other reviewers perhaps did not agree I believe the author achieved her aim. Men are simple beings, not in a derogatory way but the......more
An exasperating book, which is not the book described on the blurb. Ostensibly a look at the world of off-shore oil workers passing through Aberdeen, if you want to find out about "an overlooked industry and subculture" then read a different book. Despite interviewing over 100 men to create this boo......more
obsessed ... completely disregards a conventional framework of (ethical) journalism and instead is a v messy account of sex, affairs, drugs, misogyny, and is about the author and her own life as much if not more than it is about the men who work offshore. and it also does actually offer a fascinatin......more