Wild Dark Shore: The internationally bestselling word-of-mouth sensation
Jul 2025 · Canongate Books
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'Breathtaking' HANNAH KENT
'Spellbinding' Washington Post
'A wildly talented writer' EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL
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 realises that she’s not the only one on the island with a secret.
A novel of breathtaking twists and dizzying beauty, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love.
'Breathtaking' HANNAH KENT
'Spellbinding' Washington Post
'A wildly talented writer' EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL
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 realises that she’s not the only one on the island with a secret.
A novel of breathtaking twists and dizzying beauty, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love.
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Céline Boudier
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August 14, 2025
I loved everything about this book. I thought about it for a while after finishing it
About the author
Charlotte McConaghy is the author of the New York Times, USA Today and Indie bestseller Wild Dark Shore, named Amazon’s Best Book of the Year So Far for 2025; as well as the New York Times bestseller Once There Were Wolves, winner of the Indie Book Award for Fiction 2022 and the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Novel 2022; and the international bestseller Migrations, a Time magazine Best Book of the Year and the Amazon Best Fiction Book of the Year for 2020. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and are being adapted for film and television. She lives in Sydney with her partner and two children.
charlottemcconaghy.com
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