Strange is the Light

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781803366784
  • Weight: 255g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Sep 2026
  • Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A childhood game of wild imagination takes a frightening turn in this moving tale of intense friendship, tangled secrets and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Eat the Ones You Love, one of the Sunday Times’s Top Ten Irish Books of 2025.

For Daphne McSharry, Valentia Island was a place of joyful childhood holidays: independence, adventure and playing with her beloved friends, Ronan, Leonie and Finn. They returned to one game of their own making year after year, and let their imaginations roam free. But when the game is stolen from them by an outsider, it becomes something dark and strange, forcing Daphne to make a choice with a terrible cost. When tragedy brings her back to the island years later, she and her friends finally have to face the consequences of what she did.

Daphne never took her final turn... And there is a debt that must be paid.

Sarah Maria Griffin is a writer living in Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of the novels Spare & Found Parts, Other Words For Smoke, which won an Irish Book Award in 2019 and Eat the Ones You Love which was a Sunday Times Irish Book of the Year in 2025. She writes about video games for The Guardian, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Irish Times, The Winter Papers, and The Stinging Fly, amongst other places. She also makes zines. She was shortlisted for the Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year in 2025. She posts on Instagram as sarahgriffski.

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