Julia and the Shark

In "The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter," a mother and daughter go to live on a remote island for the summer, where the mother is determined to find the elusive Greenland shark. When her obsession threatens to submerge them all, Julia finds herself on an adventure with dark depths and a lighthouse full of hope. The book is a captivating, powerful, and luminous story about a mother, a daughter, and love, with timely themes of the importance of science and the environment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 17 March 2022
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Darkest Minds and The Ghost Map comes a captivating, powerful, and luminous story about a mother, a daughter, and the great Greenland shark. Wrapped up in mesmerizing illustrations and presented as a deluxe hardback, this is a perfect gift for the holiday season, for 9+ fans of Philip Pullman, Sally Gardner, and Frances Hardinge.

The shark was beneath my bed, growing large as the room, large as the lighthouse, rising from unfathomable depths until it ripped the whole island from its roots. The bed was a boat, the shark a tide, and it pulled me so far out to sea that I was only a speck, a spot, a mote, a dying star in an unending sky.

Julia has followed her mum and dad to live on a remote island for the summer—her dad, for work; her mother, on a determined mission to find the elusive Greenland shark. But when her mother's obsession threatens to submerge them all, Julia finds herself on an adventure with dark depths and a lighthouse full of hope.

A beautiful, lyrical, uplifting story about a mother, a daughter, and love—with timely themes of the importance of science and the environment.

Weight: 396g
Dimension: 154 x 216 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781510107779