Wild Dark Shore 9781837265923 Paperback

THE INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERSELECTED FOR BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME ,REESE’S BOOK CLUB ANDTIME’s MUST-READ BOOKS FOR 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL’I am in awe. I am in love. I am heartbroken. All of it possible, all at once, after a book as extraordinary as this one’CLAIRE DAVERLEY’Breathtaking’HANNAH KENT’Spellbinding’Washington Post’Had me gripped from the very first page’RACHEL JOYCEA family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A storm gathering force.Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny weather-lashed island that is home to the world’s largest seed bank. As Shearwater risks being lost to rising sea levels, the island’s researchers have fled, and only the Salts remain.Until, during the worst storm in living memory, a stranger washes ashore. The family nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, but it seems she isn’t telling the whole truth about why she’s there. And when Rowan stumbles upon sabotaged radios and a recently dug grave, she realises that she’s not the only one on the island with a secret.A novel of breathtaking twists and dizzying beauty,Wild Dark Shoreis about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love.