The Still Shore

<p>The Still Shore is a sweeping slow-burn Irish love story about what remains when the storm has passed - and who we become when silence lasts too long.</p><p>In 1970s Clare on the rugged edge of the Atlantic a young factory worker named Niall Kavanagh hides from the fallout of a failed strike and a past he can't forget. When a London journalist Ruth Fallon arrives to report on the community's decline their paths collide on a rain-swept road that neither was meant to travel. What begins as wary companionship becomes something deeper - an intimacy forged from long silences half-truths and the fragile hope that two people from opposite sides of Ireland's divides might still find each other in the ruins of their plans.</p><p>But time in Liscannor does not forgive easily. Old debts surface; the sea claims its due. As Ruth unearths the secrets that bind the town - a strike a betrayal a letter never sent - she and Niall are forced to choose between truth and safety love and survival. Their story unfolds against the backdrop of a country in transformation: labour disputes vanished sons mothers keeping vigil by the tide. Every revelation carries the weight of loss and the quiet strength of those who stay.</p><p>Told in lyrical cinematic prose The Still Shore evokes the wet salt air and dim light of Ireland's west coast - a place where grief is an inheritance and love an act of rebellion. Laura Carpenter delivers a deeply human historical romance about endurance courage and what it means to return to yourself after the world has changed.</p><p>For readers of Maggie O'Farrell Colm Tóibín and Sarah Winman this is a novel of rain-soaked tenderness and the resilience of ordinary people living through extraordinary times.</p><p>Sometimes love survives not because it is easy - but because it refuses to die.</p><p> </p>