A Wreck of Seabirds

When Briony first meets Ren, he is standing in the freezing sea at the edge of their tiny town. Ren hasn’ t been home for a decade but has returned to be with his dying father. Briony won’ t leave, hoping that Sarah, her missing sister, will one day reappear. But Sarah and her friend Aria have been stranded on a desolate island far off the coast. The longer they’ re trapped there, the less alone they seem. How many secrets in this town have been swallowed by the brooding sea?

Karleah Olson is a Perth-based writer and avid reader, and loves to collect books – more than she could possibly read in a lifetime. Karleah has spent the last few years as a PhD candidate at Edith Cowan University, where she is studying Australian Coastal Gothic Literature. Her debut novel, A Wreck of Seabirds, was shortlisted for the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award and is a work of YA fiction inspired by the gothic genre and the West Australian coastal landscape.