Literary Fiction
The Salt Hours
Marguerite Ellery
Three generations of a harbour family reckon with a drowned boat, a disputed inheritance, and the tide that keeps returning what they hoped it would take. A novel about labour, silence, and the cost of staying.
- Publisher
- Ashgrove Press
- Publication Date
- March 2024
- ISBN
- 978-1-9384-2201-7
Awards & Reviews
- "Written with the patience of someone who has waited out a real storm." — Harbour Review
- Shortlisted for the Aldingham Prize for Fiction
About the Author
Marguerite Ellery
Marguerite Ellery grew up on a working harbour and has never quite left it. Her novels are set among boatyards, fish markets, and the households that depend on them, and she is admired for sentences that carry weather in them.
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