For those who believe they know where they are going — a novel to change your mind.

Snowbound together, a group of people confront buried truths and discover that the lives they intended to return to are no longer available to them.

To read this novel is to understand how easily we mistake momentum for direction. A winter storm forces a temporary halt at Saltward Farm, a retreat on the south coast of Cornwall, but the real stoppage happens elsewhere: in the assumptions people make about who they are, what they’re owed, and how neatly they expect their lives to resume once inconvenience passes.

What unfolds is not a spectacle, but a reckoning. The book asks what happens when explanation runs out, when familiar roles no longer fit, and when the future you’ve been planning quietly withdraws its consent. By the end, the question is no longer whether the characters survive the storm, but whether the reader recognises the moment at which their own life might no longer accommodate the person they’ve become.

Saltward Farm is a novel of interruption, consequence, and the uncomfortable clarity that arrives when there is nowhere left to proceed as before.

— Wren (Former DCI)

A completed novel currently seeking representation.