The Salt Orchard
The new novel: four generations of apple growers, one sea wall, and the spring the salt comes in (sample).
A novel
Clara Wendt
Front cover, 153 mm
On the strip of land between the sea wall and the marsh, the Avery family has grown apples for four generations. Every spring the salt comes a little further in.
When Nell comes home to sell the orchard after her mother’s death, she finds forty years of tide dates in the kitchen almanac, one tree nobody was allowed to prune, and a brother who has no intention of leaving.
Hardback, 384 pages
Out now (sample)
Front flap, 90 mm
The facts on the back
Published
2026 (sample)
Format
Hardback, 384 pages
Spine
27 mm
ISBN
978-0-00-000000-0 (sample)
Where to buy
Any bookshop can order The Salt Orchard by title or ISBN. Signed copies come from Harbour Books in Springfield (sample).
Hardback
$27.00
Ebook
$9.99
Audiobook
Read by the author, 11 h 20 min (sample)
$19.99
Example prices.
Where it is set
The Avery orchard is invented, but the land is real: the low fields behind the sea wall north of Springfield, where old orchards still grow a few feet above the tide (sample).
Most of the book was written in one of them, in a borrowed shed, through two winters.
Bring Clara to your festival, library or book club
Readings, conversations on stage, book club evenings by video call and writing workshops. Send the date and the place; replies within a week (sample).