Is The Glass Hotel a Novelization of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love?

Was Emily St. John Mandel inspired by Kate Bush's The Ninth Wave when she wrote The Glass Hotel in 2020? Kate Bush's The Ninth Wave, the conceptual second half of her 1985 album Hounds of Love, tells the story of a woman lost at sea who drifts between memories, dreams and hallucinations as she struggles to survive. Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel finds protagonist Vincent Smith going through similar circumstances. From And Dream of Sheep and Under Ice, to Waking the Witch, Watching You Without Me, Hello Earth and The Morning Fog, the structure and imagery of The Ninth Wave seem to have some remarkable parallels with Vincent's story in The Glass Hotel. Is The Glass Hotel an unofficial novelization of The Ninth Wave, or am I simply making tenuous links between completely unrelated texts? Let's dive in and find out. Music and sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com/ Kate Bush cover songs performed by: ‪@NeilJFraser‬ ‪@lifeofbryony‬ ‪@RuthBennettHarpist‬ ‪@meanddeboe‬ ‪@reinarodina‬ #stationeleven #exitparty #bookanalysis 00:00 Hounds of Love and The Ninth Wave 01:12 A woman lost at sea 02:07 The Glass Hotel's Vincent Smith 03:23 Under Ice and Waking the Witch 04:33 Watching You Without Me and Hello Earth 05:35 The Morning Fog 06:05 Inspiration or coincidence?