Books
Novels and stories about the people who stay when the water rises — and the ones who come back.
A novel
Wren Hollis
The new novel · March 2026
When their mother dies in the middle of the harvest, Nell and Agnes Carrow inherit forty acres of pear trees on a cliff the county has already written off. The sea is closer every winter. The buyers are patient. And the sisters, who have not spent a night under the same roof in nineteen years, have one season to decide what is worth saving.
The Salt Orchard is a novel about land and loyalty, the arithmetic of care, and the way a family can be both a shelter and the storm.
From the first chapter
The trees had learned to lean away from the water long before we did. You could see it from the road: a whole orchard holding its breath, every branch pointing inland, as if the ground itself were trying to leave.
Publisher
Harbor & Finch Press
Publication
March 17, 2026
Formats
Hardcover · Ebook · Audio
ISBN
978-1-234567-89-0
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All the books
New readers often begin with What the River Keeps; the stories in A Field Guide to Leaving are the quickest way in. Every book is available in print, ebook and audio.
2019 · Debut
Linked stories · Debut · 240 pages
Twelve stories about departures — from marriages, towns, faiths and bodies.
About the book
New · 2026
Novel · Hardcover, ebook, audio · 352 pages
Two sisters, one failing orchard, and the last autumn before the sea takes it.
About the book
2022 · Paperback
Novel · Shortlisted, Coastal Fiction Prize · 304 pages
A hydrologist returns to the town her family flooded.
About the bookFor book clubs & press
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