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PUBLISHER: Fairlight Books
FORMAT: Hardback
ISBN: 9781914148330
RRP: £14.99
PAGES: 352
PUBLICATION DATE:
May 18, 2023
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Mother Sea
In an island community facing extinction, can hope rise stronger than grief?
Sisi de Mathilde lives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean. With the seas rising, the birth rate plummeting and her community under threat, she works as a scientist, reporting on local climate conditions to help protect her island home. But her life is thrown into turmoil when she finds herself newly widowed and unexpectedly pregnant.
When a group of outsiders arrive and try to persuade her community to abandon the island, Sisi is caught between the sacred ‘old ways’ of her ancestors and the possibilities offered by the outside world. As tensions rise and the islanders turn on one another, Sisi must fight to save her home, her people and her unborn child.
Lorraine Wilson
Lorraine is an award-winning writer, biologist, herder of cats and drinker of tea. Having spent years working in remote corners of the world she now lives by the sea in Scotland and writes stories full of the wilderness and folklore, exploring themes of family, belonging and the legacy of trauma. Her debut novel won the SCKA for Best Debut and was a finalist for the Kavya Prize for Scottish BPOC writers and the British Fantasy Awards for Best Fantasy Novel & Best Newcomer.