Galleon Books

“Kate Inglis’ THE GOOD SALT GIRL is an intimate, compelling, often wry novel about life and death: the potential for new life to take up residence in an old house, the capacity of ghosts to breathe new life into the barely living, the chance for old flames to be rekindled, and the pursuit of a new chapter just when we might think we have reached a dead end. It’s a beautifully wrought, wildly romantic read.”
—Claire Ross Dunn, author of Lost in France and At Last Count

Life misfires sometimes. Spinning, Liv has fled to a seemingly abandoned captain’s house along the Nova Scotian seaside—where two figures equally impossible to reconcile emerge from the distant past through a cloud of plaster and sawdust.

One is all too real, sledgehammer in hand.

The other she cannot classify.

A second coming-of-age follows the first. In a spectral exchange of friendship and reckonings, Liv coaxes out and borrows the nerve of a stout spirit to seize what was always meant to be hers.

“Wildflowers, a crumbling antique-filled house, and the salt-hazed air of Nova Scotia make a richly detailed setting for The Good Salt Girl’s metaphors of things abandoned and rescued. Exploring grief and loss, love and forgiveness, this debut novel is tender, funny, erotic and wise. A lovely book.”
—Beth Powning, author of The Sister’s Tale

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