? What becomes of us when the earth starts dying? In Wild Dark Shore, Australian NYT best-selling author Charlotte McConaghy dissects the lives of five characters as they navigate a world teetering on the edge of oblivion. When Rowan washes up the coast of Shearwater Island, she is rescued by one of its four inhabitants — a girl called Fen. Fen, alongside her brothers and father, Dominic Salt, nurse Rowan back to life, yet they do so with unease…

The skeletons don’t stay in the closet. As Rowan begins to regain consciousness, the reader quickly finds out that wildlife is near-eradicated, and climate change has taken its toll on the planet. As it turns out, Shearwater Island is home to one of the world’s last remaining seed vaults, and that too, is at risk.

How do you even wash up on an island off the coast of Antarctica? When your husband who is stationed there ghosts you, you simply have to lace up your boots and get going. Rowan goes to great lengths to find out what happened to her husband, who, until recently, lived alongside the Salt family before mysteriously “leaving.”

Wild Dark Shores isn’t about its characters. While the character arcs do a great job keeping you hooked, McConaghy’s work invites you to think of the bigger picture. What becomes of our dreams in a world threatened with extinction? What does a morning without the calling of birds sound like?

This isn’t McConaghy’s first apocalyptic rodeo. In her two novels preceding Wild Dark Shore, Migrations, and Once There Were Wolves, McConaghy writes of a world in which our environmental nightmares are reality. Introspective and painfully honest, the novel does not shy away from all things melancholy.

WHERE TO FIND IT- Wild Dark Shore is available as an ebook on Amazon.

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