Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Memoirs and Bios The small-town rumour-mill has much

The small-town rumour-mill has much to make of Katherine's odd behaviour

Two days later

From the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Amy & Isabelle

each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Memoirs and Bios The small-town rumour-mill has muchPaperback Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world's largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. Despite the wild beauty of life here, isolation has taken its toll on the Salts. Raff, 18 and suffering his first heartbreak,