The Bay of Glass and Salt — by Celia Marrowby

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Soft ferry-pitch. The island of Comino rises from turquoise water — bare, golden, barely populated. Harriet has come here from London to stop narrating her own exhaustion. On her first morning she finds something in the shallows: a worn ceramic shard with a ghost of blue glaze, and a stranger who collects what the sea gives back.