The Dark Beneath the Waves is set in the hinterlands of the Nepali Himalaya, and it is against this almost ethereal backdrop that the very human narrative unfolds of treachery and deceit, of guilt and a desperate search for redemption. Marked by the poise and poetry of its language, and its evocation of the landscape in all its grandeur and desolation, the novel is a lyrical exploration of human frailty, of human despair.