Recently widowed, Iris Pettigrew lives with her two children, Sean and Lily, at the edge of a sea notorious for wrecking boats and drowning swimmers. Iris’s husband, Darwin, had died in the forest under mysterious circumstances.
If that isn’t enough, Sean loves to swim in the turbulent sea and talks to his animal friends; while Lily, on the other hand, has inherited her father’s love of books—and for the forest.
With the help of Iris’s friend, the ever tranquil Madhu, and the town’s colourful Brazilian psychic, the family tries to get on with their lives in their isolated home; that is until a visitor drowns. The sea hasn’t claimed a life in seventeen years, and it unnerves the inhabitants of the small seaside town of Turnberry, England.
Something has changed, and now the weather won’t let up.
As the mother of all storms descends on Turnberry, something stirs deep in the forest. Sean and Lily find themselves becoming unsuspecting pawns in a struggle between land and sea, as the interweaving tale of a family separated by a terrible twist of fate some five hundred years ago, finally begins to unravel.
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