The North Shore: 'An enticing, wrack-like tangle of myth, mystery and the power of the sea and its stories' Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Paperback) - Ben Tufnell

A stunning, gothic debut from a brilliant new literary voice, perfect for fans of Daisy Johnson, Max Porter and Fiona Mozley

'Brilliant: singular, unsettling and mutative' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHAN

'The strange events of this story have haunted me' NAOMI BOOTH

'A beautiful, moving, unexpected novel . . . I will carry it with me for a long time' ELVIA WILK

'A queer, oneiric, watery fable in which narrative form and logic are in constant flux' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

You don't pass through the North Shore on the way to anywhere else: it is the end of the road. The village was like many along that wild coast; inhabited by those who had always lived there, and always would.

The residents know nature's tempestuous ways. They batten down the hatches when the storms rip through, and they clear the debris together in the aftermath.

But the morning after one particularly ferocious storm, something is washed up on the beach that has never appeared before. Something that opens the question of what nature, and the North Shore, are truly capable of.

The North Shore is both a powerful story of transformation and a coming-of-age tale. It speaks of the mysteries that lie between the land and the water and the ways in which we use myths and folklore to understand the strangeness of the world.

About the Author

Ben Tufnell is a writer based in London. He has worked as a curator in both museums and galleries and has published widely on modern and contemporary art, focussing particularly on artists and art forms that engage with ideas of land, landscape and place. The North Shore is his debut novel. www.knappedflint.com