Rimewater

THE SEASON’S MOST BORROWED DEBUT • A patient, salt-bitten novel about a lighthouse keeper’s daughter who inherits a ledger of every ship her father failed to reach • Told in tide charts, weather logs and marginal notes, Rimewater is the rare first book that trusts its reader to sit in the fog with it and wait for the bell buoy • A quiet study of inheritance, obligation and the arithmetic of rescue.

“A first novel that will quietly rearrange what you expect a coastal story to do. Bracken writes weather the way other novelists write dialogue.” —The Tidereach Review • “Spare, unhurried and finally overwhelming; I put it down twice and picked it up again both times before the kettle boiled.” —Wharfhead Quarterly

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