The Woman in the Seal Skin
Will she answer the call of the sea?
$33.45
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2026
Summary
A wonderfully atmospheric and compelling historic novel set in Scotland in 1695, from the author of All The Bees In The Hollows. Based on the selkie myths of the time, this is the story of Malie, a young woman struggling with grief, oppression, her relationship with nature and her own inherent wildness within during Europe’s ‘little ice age’.
Malie grew up hearing tales of selkies: shape-shifting women who shed their seal skins to seduce fishermen on the Orkney shores. That’s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923293328 |
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| ISBN-10: | 192329332X |
| Author: | Lauren Keegan |
| Publisher: | Affirm Press |
| Imprint: | Affirm Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 472g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 235mm x 155mm |
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‘Slides beneath your skin and hooks you completely.’ – Madeleine Cleary‘At once both treacherous and tender.’ – Kell Woods
About The Author
Lauren Keegan
Lauren Keegan is an author and psychologist living on Dharawal and Gundungurra Country (Wollondilly, New South Wales). She has worked in perinatal and infant mental health for fifteen years, has two young girls and drinks more tea than is sensible. She is the author of All the Bees in the Hollows, which was voted Best Debut Fiction at the 2025 Indie Book Awards and longlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize 2025. This is her second novel.
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