Dark River

Paperback | 24 February 2020

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Doggerland, 6200 BC. As rivers rise, young mother Shaye follows her family to a sacred oak grove, hoping that an ancient ritual will save their way of life.

London, AD 2156. In a city ravaged by the rising Thames, Shante hopes for a visa that will allow her to flee with her four-year-old son to the more prosperous north.

Two mothers, more than 8,000 years apart, struggle to save their children from a bleak future as the odds stack against them.

At the sacred oak grove, Shaye faces a revelation that cuts to the core of who she is; in the wilderness of the edgelands, Shante finds herself unprepared for the challenges and dangers that surround them at every turn.

As Shaye and Shante desperately try to hold their families together in the face of disaster, these two young mothers uncover a terrifying truth: that it is impossible to protect the ones they love.

Industry Reviews

The lyrical atmosphere of Shaye's world and the attention to the detail of prehistoric life reminded me of Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear and Michelle Paver's Wolf Brother.
- British Fantasy Society

Mr B's 2020 Books of the Year

The novel has a depth and complexity that lifts it beyond any simple labelling. There are no monsters to battle and no epic climaxes in this book. Rather, we are given a masterful insight into relationships: the mother/young son, woman/lover and sister/sister.
- Strange Horizons

Its celebration of the universal nature of human love and its evocative and haunting descriptions of changing landscapes ... alleviate the darkness. It is a challenging but necessary book, beautifully written and likely to stay with the reader long after it finishes.
- Fantasy Faction

[Falls somewhere between] Cormac Macarthy's The Road, sometimes there is rebirth like Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven.
Storgy

An incredibly atmospheric, emotionally draining and yet completely gripping novel with a bit of a gut-punch of an ending.
- Astolat Books

Wow, this book... Dark River is an absolute masterpiece of speculative eco-fiction.
- The Frumious Consortium

The style of writing is beautiful. A gender-flipped re-imagining of The Road - though with a greater appreciation for the beauty and brutality of nature.
- The Fantasy Inn

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