Iceland, 1910. In the middle of a severe storm, two sisters – Freyja and Gudrun – rescue a mysterious, charismatic man from a shipwreck near their remote farm. Sixty-five years later, a young woman – Sigga – is spending time with her grandmother when they learn a body has been discovered on a mountainside near Reykjavik, perfectly preserved in ice. Moving between the turn of the 20th century and the 1970s as a dark mystery is unravelled, ‘The Swell’ is a spellbinding read, rich in Icelandic myth.