Wild Dark Shore
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Wild Dark Shore is a 2025 novel by the Australian writer Charlotte McConaghy, author of Migrations. On remote Shearwater Island in the sub-Antarctic, Dominic Salt and his three children are the last caretakers of a seed vault as rising seas swallow the land. When a storm washes a wounded woman named Rowan ashore, the family takes her in, though she and they are each keeping secrets. The novel blends a family drama and a mystery with a portrait of a fragile landscape threatened by climate change.
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