Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminent journalist, he has recently discovered he has only a short time to live. Leaving his job, he takes passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura, the beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger. Exhilarated by the remote vista of exotic islands never to be visited and his conversations with Laura, Edmund finds himself reexamining all he has come to value. No Signposts in the Sea is Vita Sackville–West’s last novel—a haunting, elegiac tale of mature love.
