The Sirens
About this audiobook
'Teems with family secrets, eerie dreams and deep transformation ... The Sirens will sweep you away' SARAH PENNER
'What a gorgeous book this is ... Wistful, haunting, drenched in seaweed and a frothy tide' CJ COOKE
Sisters separated by hundreds of years.
Voices that can't be drowned out.
2019: Lucy awakens in her ex-lover’s room in the middle of the night with her hands around his throat. Horrified, she flees to her sister’s house on the coast of New South Wales, hoping Jess can help explain the vivid dreams that preceded the attack – but her sister is nowhere to be found.
As Lucy waits for her return, she starts to unearth strange rumours about Jess’s town. Tales of numerous missing men, spread over decades. A baby abandoned in a sea-swept cave. Whispers of women’s voices on the waves. All the while, her dreams start to feel closer than ever...
1800: Mary and Eliza are torn from their loving home in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship heading for Australia. As the boat bears them further and further from all they know, they begin to notice changes in their bodies that they can’t explain.
The Sirens is an extraordinary novel about sisterhood and the indefinable magic of the sea, about women facing off against the unexpected and coming powerfully into their own.
About the author
Emilia Hart is a British-Australian writer and author of the international bestseller, Weward. She was born in Sydney and studied English Literature and Law at the University of New South Wales before working as a lawyer in Sydney and London. Emilia is a graduate of Curtis Brown Creative’s Three-Month Online Novel Writing Course and was Highly Commended in the 2021 Caledonia Novel Award. Her short fiction has been published in Australia and the UK. She lives in London.
