The Sirens: The highly anticipated second novel from the bestselling author of WEYWARD

Salt on Your Tongue: Women and the Sea,

hands trembling around a mug of tea. She looked at him with eyes so full of hope and fear that he had to look away. ‘Bobby – I’m pregnant,’ she said. She had waited longer to tell him, afraid that it was only a matter of time before she was curled on the bathroom floor, the beginnings of their child shuddering out of her. When the inevitable happen

He had never been good at drawing people. Perhaps because their faces changed so much, or because they themselves were always changing.

That was their magic, a magic he could not capture.

He could not decide if she was beautiful in spite of her monstrosity, or because of it.

would have said that his wife was like the grit inside an oyster, polishing the pearl. She brought out the best in all who knew her.

even sturdier hips. Childbearing hips, you might call them, if you were cruel.

She will write them back into history. Bring them to the surface, the light. It doesn’t matter that she won’t be going back to university; that she won’t become a journalist. After all, there is more than one way to tell the truth.

The loom to weave a story around.