''The Handmaid''s Tale meets The Shape of Water'' KIRSTY LOGAN
''An allegorical love story with echoes of fairytales'' KATE SAWYER
''A gripping tale of love and bravery'' SOPHIE WARD
''Mesmerising and moving'' SUSANNAH WISE
''Dive in and don''t look back'' ZOE GILBERT
Everyone on this island has a story. This is mine.
Esta has known nothing but Eden''s Isle her whole life. After a fire left her orphaned and badly scarred, Esta was raised by her grandmother in a deeply religious society who cut itself off from the mainland in the name of salvation. Here, fear rules: fear of damnation, fear of the outside world and fear of what lurks beneath the water - a corrupting evil the islanders call the Seawomen.
But Esta wants more than a life where touching the water risks corruption, where her every move is watched and women are controlled in every aspect of their lives. Married off, the women o
