Deeplight Audiobook (Free)

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

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

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

The gods from the Myriad were as real as the coastlines and currents, and as merciless as the winds and whirlpools. The other day they rose up and tore one another apart, killing many a huge selection of islanders and changing the Myriad forever.

Within the jumbled streets from the Island of Lady’s Crave live Hark and his closest friend Jelt. They may be scavengers: living off their wits, diving for relics of the gods, desperate for anything they are able to sell. But now there is something stirring beneath the waves, calling to someone brave enough to retrieve it. Something valuable. Something dangerous.

Nothing is quite since it seems, and when the waves make an effort to claim Jelt, Hark will do anything to save lots of him. Also if it means compromising not only who Jelt is, but what he is . . .