The Gracekeepers - Hardcover

"The Gracekeepers is enchanting and heart-tugging. If you love Margaret Atwood you’ll love this" (Sunday Telegraph)

"A wondrous read" (Stylist)

"Clever and original" (Kate Saunders The Times)

"Truly magical" (Heat)

"A bold, fresh new talent... a wild, original imagination" (Independent on Sunday)

"A gorgeously melancholy novel, a post-apocalyptic fairy tale of mermen and mourning birds, ghost cities on the ocean floor, and precious soil. I envy the reader who is just now picking it up." (Herald)

"Highly original ... set in a haunting sea-world both familiar and mysterious" (Ursula K. Le Guin)

"Rich and strange... memorable and beautiful" (Daily Mail)

"Everything about this book is beautiful: the language is a poetic and diaphanous as nature and the many characters who contribute to the story are utterly authentic in this magic realist world. Every one of them stays with you, leaving you craving more about their back stories and their fates... This is a delicious piece of work from a supremely talented young writer" (Scotsman)

"A delightful fantasy in the mould of The Night Circus" (Red)

The magical story of a floating circus and two young women in search of a home.

The sea has flooded the earth. North lives on a circus boat, floating between the scattered islands that remain. She dances with her beloved bear, while the rest of the crew trade dazzling and death-defying feats for food from the islanders. However, North has a secret that could capsize her life with the circus.

Callanish lives alone in her house in the middle of the ocean, with only the birds and the fish for company. As penance for a terrible mistake, she works as a gracekeeper, tending the graves of those who die at sea. What drove her from home is also what pulls her towards North.

When a storm creates a chance meeting between the two girls, their worlds change. They are magnetically drawn to one another, and the promise of a new life. But the waters are treacherous, and the tide is against them.