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Wild Dark Shore

By: Charlotte McConaghy
Narrated by: Cooper Mortlock, Katherine Littrell, Saskia Maarleveld, Steve West
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A storm gathering force.

Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny weather-lashed island that is home to the world's largest seed bank. As Shearwater risks being lost to rising sea levels, the island's researchers have fled, and only the Salts remain.

Until, during the worst storm in living memory, a stranger washes ashore. The family nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, but it seems she isn't telling the whole truth about why she's there. And when Rowan stumbles upon sabotaged radios and a recently dug grave, she realizes that she's not the only one on the island with a secret.

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.

©2025 Charlotte McConaghy (P)2025 Canongate Books Ltd Psychological Thriller & Suspense Exciting

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Critic reviews

'Breathtaking' HANNAH KENT

'Spellbinding' Washington Post

'A wildly talented writer' EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL
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Fabulous book. It was hard to see what had happened and the characters were well developed.

Kept me guessing

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Interesting plot, good pace. Listen to the preview first as one of the narrators is a bit OTT.

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the ending really annoyed me.

Gripping

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Loved the themes of the story throughout, the characters, the landscape and the tense atmosphere

Beautiful story

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This book covers so many topics, grief, parenthood, mystery and climate change. Beautifully written and no surprise that it is on so many books club lists.

Slow burn but so well written

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This book is just breathtaking.

The narration is superb.

The story is delightfully unpredictable, the descriptions of the wildlife and landscape are breathtaking. The writing is subtle yet so thoughtful, the penguins, the whales, the seed stores, the Salt Family, the ocean and the waves, the seals, everything all so well written.

A masterpiece.

Utterly superb - what a brilliant book!

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