The North Shore

Brilliant: singular, unsettling and mutative, combining the mythical and the grotesque with sublime writing and an intense fascination with the natural world – Rosie Andrews, bestselling author of THE LEVIATHANTHE NORTH SHORE is a haunting evocation of place told by those who rightly love and fear it. An enticing, wrack-like tangle of myth, mystery and the power of the sea and its stories. – Kiran Millwood HargraveThe North Shore conjures the atmosphere of the Norfolk coast with unnerving beauty. This is an unusual and enthralling novel: the strange events of this story have haunted me. – Naomi BoothA mysterious and compelling tale, I really enjoyed it. Landscape and memory shift as though colluding in unsettling the past. Myth competes with truth for attention. The land is a medium for holding or expressing powers we cannot hope to understand. – Lulu AllisonAs eerie, bleak and magical as the Norfolk coast itself. An intriguing narrative of twists and turns, stories and myths, truth and fable. Tufnell has captured and distilled the very nature of nostalgia, transforming it into a gripping piece of work that pulls you in, and won’t let you go – Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the CityThis is a beautiful, moving, unexpected novel. Its smoothness and readability bely its depth and complexity, with narratives so seamlessly interwoven that I can’t find the edges. I’ve learned many things from The North Shore and will carry it with me for a long time – Elvia Wilk

Ben Tufnell is a writer based in London. He has worked as a curator in both museums and galleries and has published widely on modern and contemporary art, focussing particularly on artists and art forms that engage with ideas of land, landscape and place. The North Shore is his debut novel.

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