Wild Dark Shore A Novel

Charlotte McConaghy

eBook - 2025

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves "A WILDLY TALENTED writer." ―Emily St. John Mandel"SPELLBINDING...Exceptionally imagined, thoroughly humane." —Washington Post"Abounds with EVOCATIVE nature writing." —The New York Times Book ReviewA family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world's largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now... its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts,... more