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Mar 02, 2025
Brenda
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Shearwater was a small island not far from Antarctica, where a seed bank housed hundreds of thousands of the world's most precious seeds. The island only accommodated a few inhabitants - the Salt family, with Dominic at its head, and Raff (18), Fen (17) and Orly (9), his children - the last, as the island slowly succumbed to the sea. It was only weeks until the ship came to take them and the seeds to a safer place, when a ferocious storm hit Shearwater, bringing the island's destruction closer t
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I have enjoyed the 2 previous books of McConaghy's so I had high hopes for this one. I think she's kind of set herself up though for type; that is the atmospheric haunting sort of place with a gothic vibe of a plot. This time around, she has picked a perfect setting, full of atmosphere from the violent past, stormy weather, numerous flora & fauna which just highlight the wondrous wildness. And again, she's also set herself up as an environmentalist and a proud one, I believe, but that is one of
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Dominic Salt and his three children, Raff (18), Fen (17) and Orly (9) 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, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. Then, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman washes up on shore. Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for S
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