The Swell : The captivating, beautifully atmospheric Iceland-set dual-timeline mystery

A page-turning mystery. Spellbinding’ Anya Bergman’Captivating. A deeply satisfying, deftly woven novel of female power and resistance’ Anna Hope’Addictive and twisty’ Liza KlaussmanTwo sisters. A shipwreck. A story demanding to be told . . . Iceland, 1910. In the middle of a severe storm two sisters – Freyja and Gudrún – rescue a mysterious, charismatic man from a shipwreck near their remote farm. Sixty-five years later, a young woman – Sigga – is spending time with her grandmother when they learn a body has been discovered on a mountainside near Reykjavik, perfectly preserved in ice. Moving between the turn of the 20th century and the 1970s as a dark mystery is unravelled, The Swell is a spellbinding, beautifully atmospheric read, rich in Icelandic myth.