The books
Seven novels: the four books of the Saltmarsh Quartet, and three standalones.
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The Lantern Keeper’s Daughter
A lighthouse, a missing father, a winter that will not end.
When the Merrow light goes dark in the storm of 1952, seventeen-year-old Ada Pell climbs the tower to find her father gone and the logbook torn in half. Everyone on the island has a version of what happened. None of them agree.
- Pages
- 384
- Hardback
- $18.99
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A Harbour of Small Hours
Every boat that leaves Merrow carries a secret back.
Ten years on, Ada runs the harbour office and keeps the island’s ledgers — and its silences. Then a fishing boat returns with one man too many aboard, and the past starts to come in with the tide.
- Pages
- 412
- Hardback
- $18.99
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Where the Tide Forgets
Some things the sea gives back. Some it keeps.
A causeway, a drowned chapel and a summer of hearings. The third Saltmarsh novel follows Ada’s daughter Nell to the mainland courts, where the island’s oldest quarrel is finally put on the record.
- Pages
- 436
- Hardback
- $18.99
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The Last Light at Merrow
The final Saltmarsh novel. The light is going out for good.
The lighthouse is to be automated and the island emptied. As the last keepers pack forty years into crates, Ada and Nell open the logbook one final time — and read the half that was never meant to be found.
- Pages
- 468
- Hardback
- $19.99
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The Cartographer’s Widow
Her husband mapped the coast. She maps the lies.
Elena’s debut. In 1890s Cornwall, a widow inherits a cabinet of unfinished maps and discovers the coastline her husband drew does not quite match the one outside her window.
- Pages
- 352
- Hardback
- $16.99
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Paper Birds in Winter
A small novel about a long friendship.
Two women, one bookshop, forty winters. Told in letters slipped between the pages of second-hand books, it is the novel readers press into each other’s hands.
- Pages
- 256
- Hardback
- $15.99
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The Glasshouse Year
New for 2026 — a family, a ruined orangery, twelve months to save it.
A botanist returns to her grandmother’s crumbling estate with one year to bring the Victorian glasshouse back to life before it is sold. Out in hardback this spring.
- Pages
- 398
- Hardback
- $22.00
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The Saltmarsh Quartet
Three generations, one island, a lighthouse that keeps its secrets. Best read in order.
The Lantern Keeper’s Daughter
A lighthouse, a missing father, a winter that will not end.
A Harbour of Small Hours
Every boat that leaves Merrow carries a secret back.
Where the Tide Forgets
Some things the sea gives back. Some it keeps.
The Last Light at Merrow
The final Saltmarsh novel. The light is going out for good.
Novels that stand alone
The Cartographer’s Widow
Her husband mapped the coast. She maps the lies.
Paper Birds in Winter
A small novel about a long friendship.
The Glasshouse Year
New for 2026 — a family, a ruined orangery, twelve months to save it.
Free reading group guides
Every novel has a downloadable guide with discussion questions, a short essay from Elena and a map of Merrow.
- Twelve discussion questions per book
- Spoiler-free and spoiler-full versions
- Ask Elena to join your group on video
