Wild Dark Shore: A Novel [B2111]

2025 HCDJ in nice clean condition. A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. A Best Book of the Year: NPR, TIME, USA Today, The Economist, Scientific American, Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, BuzzFeed, BookRiot, HuffPost, Jezebel, The Globe and Mail, Kirkus, and more! (Priced at what online book buyers would pay us for this highly acclaimed book).

Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica - and 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, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again. But Rowan isn't telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it's too late-and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.

A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "The island was a main character in this sad, intense, mysterious story. The impact of climate change was profoundly and frighteningly part of this story. The family dynamics are intense and sad. I would describe this story as haunting, not really resolved in any good way."; "Would I have been happier if I had never read this book? Yes, definitely. If I could go back in time, forget everything about it, would I still choose to read it again? Also yes. Because this book was that good. It broke something in me, but it also rebuilt something. It changed me in ways I can't really explain. And maybe that's why I loved it so much."; "The writing was beautifully poetic and really painted a picture of the wildness of nature and the environment on the remote island. The suspense and mystery surrounding what happened kept me guessing right to the end, and I thought the characters were depicted really vividly and likeable. Global warming is depressing +++ though :("