For readers of Emily St. John Mandel and Kazuo Ishiguro, a mythic dystopian sci-fi novel set in a drowned future Britain about what survives when civilization falls—the stories humanity makes, and the people broken enough to carry them.
In the sealed domes above Britain's floodwaters, the New Gods have solved disease, hunger, the weather—everything except the question of what life is for. Below, in the flooded archipelago that was once Norfolk, Pilgrim sails between island communities—healer, storyteller, host to half a dozen voices that have argued in his skull since his parents were killed. A new voice has joined them, calling herself the Lady, and what she wants he has spent years refusing to give. Inside the Northampton dome, Antheia—eight feet tall, ageless, barely containing her grief—watches her son condemned to die by the system that promised her forever. She is done. What sets them in motion—a myth, a golden-haired boy, and the Marshlands' oldest story—will change both worlds beyond recognition.