The Sing of the Shore Audiobook (Free)

An uncanny, startlingly beautiful tale collection steeped in the Cornish landscaping, in the award-winning writer of Diving Belles and Other Stories and Weathering.

At the edge of England, where the Atlantic Ocean fits the land and visitors flock along with the summertime like seagulls, there’s a Cornwall that’s not demonstrated on postcards.

It is a place where communication cables buzz deep under the sand; where satellite dishes turn like blossoms on clifftops, and where people drift like flotsam, caught in eddying tides. Restless kids haunt empty vacation homes, a surfer struggles using the undertow of family life, a woman watches her years as a child spin from her in the whirl of a night-time fairground and, in a web of sea caves, a brother and sister search the dark for something dropped.

These amazing, beguiling stories of ghosts and shifting sands, of static caravans and shipwrecked cargo, explore notions of surroundings and belonging, permanence and impermanence, and just how places may take hold and never quite let go.