Salt and Skin

'Brilliant. With such a good ending, it had me slapping the back cover closed with utmost satisfaction and respect. Hard recommend' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites

'An astonishingly rich and intricate exploration of loss, love, ambition and redemption set against a backdrop of local myth and ancient island history – not least the long shadow cast by the island’s notorious witch trials three centuries previously. As the island’s supernatural past bleeds ever more into its present, it builds to a furious and fitting climax. A thrilling read' Marie Claire

‘I adored this novel. It’s both memorable and mesmerising’ Irish Examiner

'Eliza Henry-Jones is a brilliant storyteller. In Salt and Skin she has conjured a world that is hauntingly alive: to the slippery intersections between past and present, body and spirit, the uncanny and the real; an entrancing story of loss, redemption and love' Lucy Treloar, author of Salt Creek

'Salt & Skin is a thematically complex, hauntingly written book, rooted in the physicality of the landscape and populated by carefully crafted characters having conflicted relationships in which boundaries are continually probed and transgressed – between friends, parent and child, biographer and subject and possibly even this world and the next. The effect is compelling, and quite magical' The Herald

'Henry-Jones blends past and present, reality and magic into a compelling story loud with warning voices for our time' Sydney Morning Herald

'In delving into the history of witchcraft, Henry-Jones achieves the rare feat of incorporating magic realism into a modern story in a way that feels natural, inevitable' Canberra Times