Mother Sea (Paperback)

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On a remote island in the Indian Ocean, Sisi de Mathilde lives at the edge of change. Rising seas threaten the land beneath her feet. Births are becoming rare. As a scientist, she records the shifting climate in the hope of protecting the fragile place she calls home.

When Sisi is suddenly widowed and discovers she is pregnant, grief collides with responsibility. Her personal loss mirrors the uncertainty facing her community. Then outsiders arrive, urging the islanders to leave and begin again elsewhere. What they offer is survival, but at the cost of heritage, belief and belonging.

Caught between ancestral traditions and the pull of the modern world, Sisi must decide what can be saved and what must be sacrificed. As fear and division spread across the island, she fights to protect her home, her people and the life growing within her.

The Rising Tide is a powerful, lyrical novel about climate, community and resilience. Shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year, it asks whether hope can endure in a world shaped by loss.