The North Shore

A stunning, gothic debut from a brilliant new literary voice, perfect for fans of Daisy Johnson, Max Porter and Fiona Mozley 'As eerie, bleak and magical as the Norfolk coast itself. An intriguing narrative of twists and turns, stories and myths, truth and fable . . . a gripping piece of work that pulls you in, and won't let you go'Nick Bradley'Conjures the atmosphere of the Norfolk coast with unnerving beauty. This is an unusual and enthralling novel: the strange events of this story have haunted me'Naomi BoothYou don't pass through the North Shore on the way to anywhere else: it is the end of the road. The village is like many along that wild coast; inhabited by those who have always lived there, and always would. The residents know nature's tempestuous ways. They batten down the hatches when storms rip through, and clear the debris in the aftermath. But after one particularly ferocious storm, something washes up on the beach that has never appeared before. Something that opens the question of what nature, and the North Shore, are truly capable of.'A mysterious and compelling tale. Landscape and memory shift as though colluding in unsettling the past'Lulu Allison 'A beautiful, moving book'Elvia Wilk 'Brilliant: singular, unsettling and mutative' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHAN'The strange events of this story have haunted me' NAOMI BOOTH'A beautiful, moving, unexpected novel . . . I will carry it with me for a long time' ELVIA WILK'A queer, oneiric, watery fable in which narrative form and logic are in constant flux' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTYou don't pass through the North Shore on the way to anywhere else: it is the end of the road. The village was like many along that wild coast; inhabited by those who had always lived there, and always would.The residents know nature's tempestuous ways. They batten down the hatches when the storms rip through, and they clear the debris together in the aftermath. But the morning after one particularly ferocious storm, something is washed up on the beach that has never appeared before. Something that opens the question of what nature, and the North Shore, are truly capable of.The North Shore is both a powerful story of transformation and a coming-of-age tale. It speaks of the mysteries that lie between the land and the water and the ways in which we use myths and folklore to understand the strangeness of the world.