Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, 2025
A storm delivers a nearly drowned stranger to a remote island family, and the rescue forces them to reckon with what they owe each other.
Charlotte McConaghy
Australian novelist Charlotte McConaghy wrote Migrations and Once There Were Wolves; the latter follows a biologist reintroducing wolves to the Scottish Highlands.
Feels like society, dread and family.
The confession a parent makes only inside his own head.
You are not meant to have favorites, but my youngest is that. If only by a hair, and with a gun to my head. If I really, really had to answer. And not because we are most alike: that is my oldest and me. Not because we are least alike: that is my daughter and me. Maybe it is because he is curious and kind and so smart it can make your eyes water. Maybe it’s because he whispers to the wind and hears its voice in return. Most likely I don’t know why. But it may also be because, for one brief moment long ago, I wished him dead. Books by Charlotte McConaghy
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