The Salt Archive

When Nell Ashby is called back to the island she left at eighteen, she expects to sign some papers, sell the lighthouse and leave. Instead she finds her grandmother's keeper's ledger, forty years of ships and storms recorded in a careful hand, and a single name scratched out so hard the pen tore the page.

Moving between a winter of storms in 1986 and the present day, The Salt Archive is a sweeping, tender novel about memory, the sea and the stories families keep from each other.