Wild Dark Shore Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2026

“Wild Dark Shore” follows Dominic Salt and his three children, caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island near Antarctica that once hosted a bustling research base and now houses the world’s largest seed bank. As climate change forces the family to prepare to abandon their fragile home, a mysterious woman, Rowan, washes ashore after a storm, upending their grief stricken equilibrium and igniting a tense, intimate story about love, belonging and the cost of preserving what matters in a collapsing world.