The Last True Poets of the Sea

"Profound and page-turning."
--Madeline Miller #1 New York Times best-selling author of Circe

The Larkin family isn’t just lucky—they persevere. At least that’s what Violet and her younger brother Sam were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine their great-great-great-grandmother didn’t drown like the rest of the passengers. No Fidelia swam to shore fell in love and founded Lyric Maine the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer.

But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall funny musical Violet can’t stop partying with the wrong people. And one beautiful summer day brilliant sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life.

Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment Violet is haunted by her family’s missing piece—the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century.

She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric the journey Violet takes—and the bridges she builds along the way—may be the start of something like survival.

Epic funny and sweepingly romantic The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck.