In a future beyond catastrophe, a woman walks alone through the remnants of a planet once teeming with humanity. Arnaq, who grew up under the northern lights during a time of environmental upheaval, now traverses the Earth’s most hauntingly beautiful and desolate ecosystems —tundras, oceans, and forests—in search of another living soul.

This is not a tale of disaster or apocalypse. Instead, it is a quiet, deeply moving meditation on solitude, memory, and resilience. Through Arnaq’s eyes, we glimpse a world after us: fragile, transformed, and achingly empty. In the absence of humanity, nature remains, altered but enduring, and so does the faint hope that connection might still be possible. This novel is a profound love letter to the planet we leave behind, and to the persistence of those who carry memory forward.

‘This book is a discovery. It is very unusual to read a debut that is so striking, wellcrafted, and well thought out.’ KOLBRUN BERGTHORSDOTTIR, KILJAN, NATIONAL TV

‘Nina has the reader completely in her power until the very end and tells a powerful story that lingers long afterward.’ RB, MORGUNBLADID DAILY