‘One of our finest storytellers’ Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent

‘Pure magic’ M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With all the current Gifts

From Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning writer of The Lie Tree comes Deeplight – an underwater adventure as dangerous as the gods themselves .

The gods of the Myriad were as real as the coastlines and currents, and as merciless as the winds and whirlpools. Then one day they increased up and tore each other apart, eliminating many a huge selection of islanders and changing the Myriad forever.

For the jumbled streets from the Island of Lady’s Crave live Hark and his best friend Jelt. They are scavengers: living off their wits, diving for relics from the gods, desperate for anything they can sell. However now there is certainly something stirring under the waves, contacting to someone fearless enough to get it. Something valuable. Something dangerous.

Nothing is quite as it seems, so when the waves make an effort to claim Jelt, Hark will do anything to save lots of him. Actually if this means compromising not just who Jelt is definitely, but what he’s . . .