LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 · The New York Times bestseller · A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick · Indian subcontinent edition
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A storm gathering force.
Dominic Salt and his three children are the last caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny, weather-lashed island that holds the world's largest seed bank. With rising seas threatening to swallow the island, the researchers have all fled. Only the Salts remain.
Then, in the worst storm anyone can remember, a stranger washes up on the shore. The family nurse her back to strength, but Rowan isn't telling the whole truth about why she has come. And when she stumbles on sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realises she is not the only person on the island with a secret.
Charlotte McConaghy's novel of breathtaking twists and fierce natural beauty is about the impossible choices people make to protect the ones they love, even as the world around them ends. Fredrik Backman calls it absolutely astonishing; the Washington Post calls it spellbinding.
About the author
Charlotte McConaghy is an Australian novelist and the author of the international bestsellers Migrations and Once There Were Wolves. Wild Dark Shore won Australia's Indie Book of the Year and the Dymocks Book of the Year, and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Stella Prize.
Edition details
- Canongate paperback
- For sale in the Indian subcontinent only
