Strangers at the Port

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'Enchanting and haunting' RACHEL RODDY 'A fable for our times' SPECTATOR 'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original' LUCIE ELVEN 'A seaside Gothic tale teeming with superstition and mistrust' READINGS MONTHLY Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. Her best friend, apart from her older sister Giovanna, is a donkey. Giulia and Giovanna's days on the island are shaped by ritual, community, superstition and isolation. Until the men arrive. And a foreign yacht anchors at the port. And the vines begin to fail. And everything changes. From the author of Dolores , Strangers at the Port is an exquisite, enchanted novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.