'The Road meets Waiting for Godot: powerful; unforgettable; unique' Melissa Harrison; author of At Hawthorn Time. Doggerland is a superbly gripping debut novel about loneliness and hope; nature and survival - set on an off-shore windfarm in the not-so-distant future. 'His father's breath had been loud in the small room. It had smelled smoky; or maybe more like dust. He had knotted and unknotted a strap on the bag he was holding - he must have been leaving to go out to the farm that day. 'I'll get out;' he'd said. 'I'll come back for you; ok?' The boy remembered that; had always remembered it. And; for a time; he'd believed it too.' In the North Sea; far from what remains of the coastline; a wind farm stretches for thousands of acres. The Boy; who is no longer really a boy; and the Old Man; whose age is unguessable; are charged with its maintenance. They carry out their never-ending work; scoured by wind and salt; as the waves roll; dragging strange shoals of flotsam through the turbine fields. Land is only a memory. So too is the Boy's father; who worked on the turbines before him; and disappeared. The boy has been sent by the Company to take his place; but the question of where he went and why is one for which the Old Man will give no answer. As his companion dredges the sea for lost things; the Boy sifts for the truth of his missing father. Until one day; from the limitless water; a plan for escape emerges... This beautifully crafted novel about loneliness and hope; nature and survival; is as haunting as it is compelling - a very special debut indeed.