The Bay of Glass and Salt — by Celia Marrowby

Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Soft ferry-pitch. The island of Comino rises from turquoise water — bare, golden, barely populated. Harriet has come here from London to stop narrating her own exhaustion. On her first morning she finds something in the shallows: a worn ceramic shard with a ghost of blue glaze, and a stranger who collects what the sea gives back. Includes mentions of: Bodies of Water, Travel, Food, Beverages, Animals, History. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian