From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward'Teems with family secrets, eerie dreams and deep transformation ... The Sirens will sweep you away' SARAH PENNER'What a gorgeous book this is ... Wistful, haunting, drenched in seaweed and a frothy tide' CJ COOKESisters separated by hundreds of years.Voices that can't be drowned out. Lucy is running from what she's done: the terror of waking with her hands around her ex-lover's throat, his face turning purple and eyes bulging. Pursued by nightmares - and with nowhere else to go - she makes for her big sister's clifftop home. But when she arrives, Jess is nowhere to be found.The town is strange and full of rumours: a dozen men disappeared, without a trace. Women's voices murmuring on the waves. A foundling discovered in a sea-swept cave.As Lucy searches for Jess, her dreams seem to draw closer. She can see two sisters in a murky past. She can see a world where men always seem to get their way. And something in her body wants to fight back.Could the answer to who she is - and what's happening to her - lie in this quiet, sea-soaked town? Could it lie two hundred years deep in the past?
ISBN: | 9780008732912 |
Publication date: | 16th January 2025 |
Author: | Emilia Hart |
Publisher: | The Borough Press an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 384 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages Speculative fiction |