The Ghosts of Shearwater

Dominic Salt and his three children are the guardians of Shearwater, an island lost in the middle of the Southern Ocean.

Home to the world's largest seed bank, the site recently hosted numerous researchers whom rising waters forced to leave.

It is up to the Salts, now alone under the inexorable threat of the elements, to choose which seeds will be saved and on which the future of humanity may well depend.

One stormy evening, a woman washes ashore, miraculously alive. Where does she come from? And what is she looking for?

Soon, buried secrets will resurface. And everyone will have to confront their ghosts.

Blending suspense, ecological reflection, and family tragedies, Charlotte McConaghy delivers an addictive polyphonic thriller about the quest for communion and beauty in a world on the brink.