THE BROKEN ISLAND / PLACES

The country
beneath the story.

A shore known through work, a forest revealed by the tide, a town inside inherited walls. Places as the novel introduces them.

The drowned forest

At low tide, an older landscape rises through the water. Ebbe knows its stumps by name.

A contract brings Arthur here. The published premise places former enemies behind its crumbling walls.

Cattle, salt, clay and tidal creeks: the country as a place where people work.