The Salt Meridian
a novel
- Form
- Novel
- Reading length
- About 5 hours
- Languages
- English · Português (Portugal)
About this book
When the tide tables fail for the first time in a century, cartographer Marta Leal is sent back to the island she left at seventeen, where her grandfather once kept the light and the harbour still keeps his silences. Her assignment is simple: redraw the charts before winter closes the channel. But the island refuses simple measurement. The old pilot who taught her to read water will not speak of the year the ferry stopped; the church ledger is missing exactly one page; and the new lighthouse keeper, a patient stranger with a mainland accent, seems to be mapping something other than the coast. As storms shorten the days, Marta's survey becomes an accounting of what the island chose to forget — and of what she did. The Salt Meridian is a novel about the lines we draw to keep the past navigable, and the cost of correcting a chart that everyone has learned to sail by.
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