This powerful novel from the award-winning author of Richard and Judy pick -Eve Green- is a tale of love and the lore of the sea.The islanders of Parla are still mourning the loss of one of their own. Four years since that loss, and a man - un-named, unclothed - is washed onto their shores. Some say he is a mythical man from the sea - potent, kind and beautiful; others suspect him. For the bereft Maggie, this stranger brings love back to the isle. But as the days pass he changes every one of them - and the time comes for his story to be told-Tender, lyrical and redemptive, -The Silver Dark Sea- is the dazzling new novel from the author of -Eve Green- (winner of Whitbred First Novel award). It is a story about what life can give and take from us, when we least expect it - and how love, in all its forms, is the greatest gift of all.