Novelist · six books · twenty-four languages
Ada
Marlow
Novels about islands, families and the weather between them. The new one, The Salt Year, is out 3 March 2027.
About
The island girl.
Ada Marlow grew up on a tidal island with one shop, two churches and a lighthouse her grandfather kept. She has written six books since, translated into twenty-four languages.
She lives by the sea, writes on a typewriter that needs a new ribbon, and answers every letter eventually.
6books
24languages
2Mreaders
The books
The Salt Year
A lighthouse keeper's daughter returns to the island she swore she'd never see again, and finds the sea has kept every one of her secrets.
Praise
What readers say.
Marlow writes weather the way other novelists write people.
A book to read slowly, then press into someone's hands.
Nobody makes silence on the page sound so loud.
Generous, strange and completely unforgettable.
On tour
Come and listen.
Write to Ada
Letters welcome.
Every letter gets read. For anything else, the right person is below.