Author: Choi, Susan

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 26 February 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 528 pages
128 x 197 x 38 | 364g

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHA moment is all it takes to shatter a family. The echoes last a lifetime…

Ferociously smart and full of surprises’ Eleanor CattonEngrossing… Full of brains and mystery’ TelegraphOne evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin. Her father is missing: presumably drowned.

This sudden event shatters their small family. As Louisa and her American mother return to the US, Serk’s disappearance reverberates across time and space,