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The Wild Beneath

Kelly Anderson

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English
Text Publishing Company
04 August 2026
Set in the Pacific Northwest, The Wild Beneath is a sweeping love story that pulls Annie between a life of stability with her childhood sweetheart and a mysterious man washed ashore.

'Anderson's book is ethereal, languid, crafted of language that rushes and recedes like a tide, buoying a story that reminds us sometimes the impossible is possible.' JODI PICOULT

A love story as fierce and mysterious as the sea itself.

Annie MacLeod always knew she was different, growing up on a boat in the Pacific Northwest, navigating by the stars and living in sync with the ocean. But when a tsunami shatters her world and her parents are swept away, Annie is stranded on land, grief-stricken, despite her enduring love for her childhood sweetheart, Evan.

In the wreckage, Annie rescues a wordless man named Walker, who emits a hum only she can hear. Their connection is instant, elemental, and Annie is torn between the two men. When Walker disappears, Annie must decide between evacuating with Evan or staying to uncover the secrets Walker held.

Six years later, Annie has buried the past. But when Walker's otherworldly sound returns, it forces a reckoning in her soul with the ocean life she's left behind.

The Wild Beneath is a spellbinding story of soulmates, sacrifice and the ancient bonds that tie us all to the natural world.

For fans of Charlotte McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore, Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing and Miranda Cowley Heller's The Paper Palace.

PRAISE-

'Absolutely dazzling.'-Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Amalfi Curse

Haunting and unforgettable.' Julia Kastner, Shelf Awareness

'An incandescent debut. Kelly Anderson pares the world down to its essentials and reminds us of the beauty and mystery of being alive...

I did not want to come up for air.'

Emma Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

'An entrancing, magical novel that highlights the beauty of the natural world and our fragile place within it. Spellbinding!'

Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid series
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Imprint:   Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 1mm,  Width: 1mm, 
Weight:   1g
ISBN:   9781923058989
ISBN 10:   1923058983
Pages:   384
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Dr Kelly Anderson is a family physician with fellowships in HIV and emergency medicine. She has worked extensively in rural and remote emergency departments, spent fifteen years at the Inner City Family Health Team at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, and built the clinical team at Felix Health. After completing the Bookends Novel Fellowship, she trained in the Gateless Writing Academy and is a certified Gateless writing teacher. Kelly spent much of her childhood in British Columbia, and now lives in Guelph, Ontario with her family. The Wild Beneath is her first novel.

Reviews for The Wild Beneath

‘Anderson’s book is ethereal, languid, crafted of language that rushes and recedes like a tide, buoying a story that reminds us sometimes the impossible is possible.’ * Jodi Picoult * ‘An entrancing, magical novel that highlights the beauty of the natural world and our fragile place within it. Spellbinding!’ * Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid series * ‘In The Wild Beneath, debut author Kelly Anderson elegantly blurs the line between nature and humanity, illuminating the deep, unseen currents that connect us—to each other and to the natural world. Readers won’t so much read this novel as feel it. I’ll never look at the ocean the same way again. Absolutely dazzling.’ * Sarah Penner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary * 'An incandescent debut...reminds us of the beauty and mystery of being alive.’ * Emma Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus * 'The Wild Beneath is a song of a book, haunting and beautiful and strange, rich and lingering. It drew me in like the pull of the sea.’ * Emma Hooper, internationally bestselling author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James *


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