Saltglass

<p>Saltglass is a quiet coastal ghost story set on the seafront between Tynemouth Castle and Whitley Bay.</p><p>After winter storms strip the sands museum volunteer Hannah Ward catalogs finds from the Black Middens and logs a small shard of green sea glass drilled for a cord and scratched with two letters. The shard will not stay shelved. Damp lines appear on the inside of windows. Counts are heard at the Battery rail: one two three four... and stop.</p><p>Old papers from the Watch House and a chapel in Blyth show what was missed in 1895 when a launch brought men in from the river mouth-five named one boy left off. To put the record straight Hannah's family and the Watch House must find the name and speak it where it belongs.</p><p>No spectacle. No tricks. Just place paper and the work of saying a name in the right spot so the count can close.</p>