Strangers at the Port From one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists

<p><b> A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023</b><br><br>'Enchanting and haunting'<br><b>RACHEL RODDY</b><br><br>'A fable for our times'<br><b><i>SPECTATOR</i></b><br><br>'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original'<br><b>LUCIE ELVEN</b><br><br>'A seaside Gothic tale teeming with superstition and mistrust' <br><b><i>READINGS MONTHLY<br></i></b><br>Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. Her best friend, apart from her older sister Giovanna, is a donkey. Giulia and Giovanna's days on the island are shaped by ritual, community, superstition and isolation.<br><br>Until the men arrive. And a foreign yacht anchors at the port. And the vines begin to fail. And everything changes.<br><br>From the author of <i>Dolores</i>, <i>Strangers at the Port</i> is an exquisite, enchanted novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.</p>