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Community Read: Wild Dark Shore

When: 
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Where: 

Stockbridge Library

Come together at the Stockbridge Library with the Library's Director, Wendy Pearson, and Berkshire Botanical Garden's Director of Education, Jennifer Patton, to discuss Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy on Tuesday, March 3, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. This program is FREE; registration is not required.

Copies of "Wild Dark Shore" are available at Stockbridge Library, other area libraries and local booksellers.

From the author's website:

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his three children 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. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore. Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again. But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together. A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.

Charlotte McConaghy is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of the novels Wild Dark Shore, Once There Were Wolves, and Migrations, which are being translated into more than thirty languages and adapted for screen. She has a Masters in Screenwriting and lives in Sydney with her partner and two children.

https://www.charlottemcconaghy.com/

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