Wild Dark Shore

A Novel

De: Charlotte McConaghy

Narrado por: Cooper Mortlock, Katherine Littrell, Saskia Maarleveld, Steve West

This program features multicast narration.

An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves

"A WILDLY TALENTED writer."―Emily St. John Mandel

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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

©2025 Charlotte McConaghy (P)2025 Macmillan Audio

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A Most Anticipated Book (Goodreads, Publishers Weekly)

“[A] terrific thriller…McConaghy keeps readers guessing…McConaghy writes about both nature and human frailty with eloquent generosity. Readers won’t want to leave behind the imagined world of pain and beauty that McConaghy has conjured.”—Kirkus (starred review)

“Sub-Antarctic noir meets a love letter to the rapidly disappearing wild world in McConaghy’s latest…As lush as it is taut with tension, this novel is filled with both the joys and ravages of nature.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“Urgent…McConaghy ratchets up the tension as the characters’ paranoia and mutual suspicion increases and their motives are revealed…McConaghy blends entertainment with a sobering message about conservation and the impacts of geographic isolation.”—Publishers Weekly

Gripping!

Incredible story and narration. I loved how the story unfolded and the characters developed and grew throughout. I couldn’t stop listening.

Another fantastic story!

I loved this book. Always captivating start to finish. I wanted a different ending but that's just me.

Very interesting

Love how this story is based on places and events that have happened. Great story.

Powerful, Emotional and Original

A very original story, well researched and suspensefull. I didn't want it to end. Won't go into plot because the Audible description is apt. It reminded me of Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood, although very different, it's very much about nature, resources and the changing climate.

Many kinds of love!!!

The characters, the Island and the story were unique and incredible. The characters grew throughout the story till the ending. I learned many facts.

DARK, GORGEOUS, COMPELLING

Gripping story, beautiful prose, deep complicated relationships, nature is a powerful character. Risk and tension risk and tension. Stunning book. I listen, the audio is divine.

Beautiful, sad, haunting

Beyond the mystery at it’s heart, this stunning novel is an examination of the enduring nature of love, and the compulsion to save what is precious to us. And the extraordinary setting is a character all its own. Bravo!

Really encapsulating and wonderful

Best audiobook I’ve listened to in a long time. I truly couldn’t shut it off. The imagery, the storyline, the twists and turns, I finished the audio book within a week.

INCREDIBLE!!!

I am screaming. I am gutted. I am a puddle. I am in absolute awe of this incredible book.

The brand new novel called Wild Dark Shore is at the tiptop of my book recommendations from now until forever. The writing, this incredible moving writing, is leaving me breathless.

The novel takes place on the windswept, almost abandoned and wild landscape of an island near Antarctica. Where a family lives trying to save something so precious to the world and humanity. When a woman washes up on their shores the sanity they are all trying to hold together starts to come apart.

Secrets are being held deep inside. The winds are talking back. And the sea is rising and fighting. And your heart will be tested and pulled into pieces. This book is pure magic. I will forever remember the first time I read it and I urge you to be swept away by its wildness

Outstanding!

Intelligent. Romantic. Heartwrenching. The writing style and the outstanding narration are a perfect blend. Together they create a painting with words. Based on real science that is affecting us this very minute, McConaghy has woven the lives of heroes into the lives of all living things.