The Silver Dark Sea

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This powerful novel from the award-winning author of Richard and Judy pick Eve Green is a tale of love and the lore of the sea.
Off the coast of Scotland, the islanders of Parla are still mourning the loss of one of their own. Four years since that loss, and a man un-named, unclothed is washed onto their shores. Some say he is a mythical man from the sea potent, kind and beautiful; others suspect him. For the bereft Maggie, this stranger brings love back to the isle. But as the days pass he changes every one of them and the time comes for his story to be told

Tender, lyrical and redemptive, The Silver Dark Sea is the dazzling new novel from the author of Eve Green (winner of Whitbred First Novel award) and Witch Light. It is a story about what life can give and take from us, when we least expect it and how love, in all its forms, is the greatest gift of all.

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Quietly beautifulpoetic, dreamlike prose Sunday Times

Susan Fletchers prose shimmers like light on water, and shes equally adept at charting the emotions of her memorable characters Old resentments are revisited, dark secrets are revealed, while barricaded, shut-away hearts let in the possibility of love Marie Claire

Fletcher is a powerful storyteller full-blooded, a bit old-fashioned and with a knack for combining sensual narratives with a feel for ancient myth and natural landscape Delicious, briny writing Metro

Smooth, flowing and feminine, Fletcher's prose lulls you with its lyricism and emotional resonance [a] fishy, mythical tale of love and loss and the depths that grief can reach Herald

Author Bio

Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. She is the author of the bestselling EVE GREEN, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, WITCH LIGHT and OYSTERCATCHERS.