Join us for Book Club at Bedford Books on Tuesday May 19 at 6:30pm to discuss Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy. There will be lively discussion, questions posed and answered and time to connect with fellow YS Members.

This is a zero pressure book club – didn’t quite finish the book? Come anyway.

Hosted by Fran Hauser & Emily Winograd Leonard

Light refreshments will be available.

Member RSVP required.

This book is available for purchase at Bedford Books! You can also purchase the book on the Bedford Books website here and have it shipped to you.

About the Book

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.

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. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.

Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.

But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.

A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.

About the Author

Charlotte McConaghy is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Wild Dark Shore, Once There Were Wolves, and Migrations. Her novels are being translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her partner and two children.