Will I love Wild Dark Shore?

I loved the setting—wild and beautiful but on-the-brink-of-collapse Antarctica.

And who knew there was a seed bank where all the seeds of the world are collected and saved? Who decides what’s worth saving?

A cliffhanger ending that kept me turning pages. I could never put it down.

The novel is set on an island between Australia and Antarctica, loosely based on Macquarie Island, a World Heritage Site and research station where scientists have been studying environmental change. McConaghy sets up the novel as a thriller, and the story is an intriguing one: For years, widower Dominic Salt has been the island’s caretaker, raising his three children in this natural paradise. But due to climate change, sea level rise is happening so fast the island will soon disappear. A boat is going to be picking the family up in seven weeks, the timeline of the novel, and the… show more.

I loved the premise, which may be sadly prescient: the world's saved seed vault in danger of being swept away by rising seas, and the unusual setting at the bottom of the world.

Impossible to put down. I love this author's sensitivity to our world and the deeper meanings in her books. And what a poignant ending!

It transported me to a remote Antarctic island with the planet's last seed bank on the brink of being swallowed by the sea. Washing up on shore with a nearly drowned woman, I joined a family with wild children grievig the loss of their mother.

The story is adventurous, mysterious and holds so many secrets.