SALT AND SKIN

She didn't go looking for him. She went looking for herself. He was just what she found on the way.

When Kate Morrow signs her divorce papers on a grey Tuesday morning, she does it in her dressing gown, alone, next to a fruit bowl with one dead banana. Forty-four years old. Fourteen years of marriage. A life that has quietly, politely, hollowed out.

On a slightly drunk impulse at two in the morning, she books a solo trip to Greece.

In Santorini, Kate finds the light she'd forgotten. In Crete, she finds Elena - a ceramics teacher who has built a life of her own choosing and asks the question Kate most needs to be asked. And somewhere between the two islands, she finds Nikolaj: a Danish architect who looks at her like she is worth the time.

What follows is not a conventional love story. It is something more rare - the story of a woman who had forgotten the dimensions of her own desire, and what it costs, and what it gives back, to remember them.

Salt and Skin is an emotionally rich, deeply sensory novel about grief, reinvention, and the particular freedom that comes from choosing yourself - at any age, in any light.