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Conservation scientist and award winning author Lorraine Wilson will be introducing her new book, Mother Sea, a novel of motherhood, community and exile set on a remote island threatened by climate change.

A writer of fiction influenced by folklore and the wilderness, she is drawn to themes of family, belonging and the legacy of trauma.

Her debut novel This Is Our Undoing (2021) was shortlisted for the Kavya Prize and for the British Fantasy Society’s Best Newcomer and Best Fantasy Novel awards, and longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association’s Best Novel award. Her second novel The Way the Light Bends was published in 2022.

She won a British Fantasy Award for her short story ‘Bathymetry’ in 2022. Lorraine currently lives on the east coast of Scotland with her family.