Winner of a British Fantasy Award, finalist for the Kavya Prize and longlisted for a British Science Fiction Award.
This novella is steeped in Icelandic folklore, and a very personal exploration of chronic pain, as well as PTSD, family secrets and the lure of the sea. Read more about the story behind the story here.
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People from this house go down to the sea at night, and drown.
Tinna cannot remember the last words she said to her husband. Three whole months of her memories were stolen in the crash that killed him and left her scarred and suffering from chronic pain.
Adrift and struggling to reconcile herself to this dual loss, Tinna accepts her aunt’s invitation to return to her childhood home on a remote Icelandic coast. But a greater grief has already taken hold here, one that has haunted the women of Tinna’s family for generations. When her secretive aunt forbids Tinna from going down to the shore in the dark, she still cannot resist. Then she hears whispers on the tide offering her the answers she so desperately needs. If she can bear the price.
