Salt Publishing Flotsam

‘By turns beguiling and unsettling, Flotsam examines grief and loss through the eyes of an extraordinary child’ Rachel Seiffert Trine and her mother live in a cottage on the German coast.The mudflats that surround them disappear and reappear with the North Sea tides.The family leads a lonely existence, but each person has adapted in their own way.Anna roams the beaches collecting flotsam and jetsam to make art, while Trine loves playing on a wartime shipwreck.That is, until she loses her brother. In her taut style, Meike Ziervogel tells a coming-of-age story from 1950s Germany – a place still haunted by war.A place where people pretend not to notice the ghosts.