Now in paperback. A family sits out the worst winter in thirty years in a house at the edge of a cliff, and finds out what each of them has been keeping indoors.
“Garroway has the rarest gift: she makes quiet lives feel like epics.” Saltwater Quarterly
Buy The Weather Indoors here and I post it from Ibadan, signed if you like, with a dedication to whoever you choose.
A first name is plenty. Leave it blank for my signature alone.
Posted from Ibadan within two working days. Delivery prices are at the foot of every page; returns within 30 days.
Or buy it from your local bookshop, Hollin Street Books, Hatchway Books and Larkspur & Lowe; the ebook from Paperlane and the audiobook from Earshot Audio. Shop names are samples.
“A tender, ferocious novel about family and erosion. I could not put it down and did not want it to end.”
“The best novel I have read about a family in years. Every room in it is lived in.”
“Clear-eyed, funny and devastating. Book clubs will argue about Maggie for a decade.”
After the worst storm in a century, a woman who catalogues what the sea leaves behind finds a letter addressed to her mother. Hardback, ebook and audiobook, read by me. Newsletter readers get the first chapter in March.
Four of the questions from the reading group guide. The full guide has six, with a note from me on how the book began.
I join a few book clubs each season, in person in Ibadan and Lagos and online anywhere. Tell me which book and roughly when.
What I am writing and reading, new dates near you, and first chapters before anyone else. 6,200 readers get it.
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I grew up on the coast at Badagry, worked nights at a swimming baths, and have written four novels about families, weather and the places that keep us. I live in Ibadan.
Represented by Priya Mendes at Calloway & Rook Literary · Published by Harrow Lane Books
Newest first, sold here and posted from Ibadan. Covers are samples.
Out 3 June 2027
After the worst storm in a century, a woman who catalogues what the sea leaves behind finds a letter addressed to her mother.
Start here if you want to be told first: newsletter readers get the first chapter in March.
Any bookshop can take a pre-order with the ISBN; signed copies are sold here from publication day.
About the bookNow in paperback
A family sits out the worst winter in thirty years in a house at the edge of a cliff, and finds out what each of them has been keeping indoors.
Start here if you like big family novels that take place in a small space.
Paperback ₦12,000
Published 2021
A night attendant at an old public swimming baths, a woman who swims at five every morning, and the summer the council decides to close it.
Start here if you want something warm and funny with a lot of heart.
Paperback ₦10,000
Published 2018
A woman goes back to the salt marsh where her brother went missing, for one year, to sell the house.
Start here if you like to begin at the beginning, and love a novel steeped in landscape.
Paperback ₦10,000
The Tideline is the best way to hear from me: what I am working on, the books I loved, new dates near you and first chapters early.
The Tideline, October
Dear reader, the cover of the new book arrived on Tuesday, and I have propped it against the kettle so I can look at it every time I make tea, which is often. It is a sea. Of course it is a sea.
This month: the first look at Tidewrack, a dispatch from a wet and wonderful weekend in Enugu, three novels I could not stop reading, and the autumn dates, including Lagos in November.
Nell
Between novels I write essays and journalism. Publication names are samples.
Essay, Saltwater Quarterly ·
My grandmother’s house on the coast had four doors and she used one. On what we keep out, and what gets in anyway.
Column, The Northern Review ·
Every January I reread the same three novels. This year I tried to work out why.
The right person answers faster. Hi-res photos, covers and bios are in the press kit.
Agents, publishers and film
Translation, film, television and audio rights, and anything about a book deal.
Priya Mendes, Calloway & Rook Literary
priya@callowayrook.example
Festivals, bookshops and press
Readings, festivals, interviews, review copies and school or library visits.
Tom Ashby, Publicity, Harrow Lane Books
publicity@harrowlane.example
Readers and book clubs
A question about a book, a book club visit, or just to say hello. I read everything and answer when I can.
The readers’ form
My new novel, out
After the worst storm in a century, a woman who catalogues what the sea leaves behind finds a letter addressed to her mother.
The Weather Indoors is out now in paperback. Buy it here, signed if you like
Then the January storm takes the end of the promenade and two houses on Cliff Row, and on the morning after, wedged in a lobster pot, Edie finds a letter in a sealed jar. It is addressed to her mother, who has been dead for twenty years. It is dated last week.
“The sea gives things back in the order it wants. Edie learned that the first winter, when it returned the left boot of a man called Harold Pike three weeks before it returned Harold Pike, and a full year before it returned the right boot, which she still had.”
The paperback tour runs to March; the Tidewrack dates start in June. Venues and prices are samples.
Nov 2026
Thursday, 7pm
The Weather Indoors in paperback: a reading, questions and signing
Fold Yard Books, 14 Ibara Lane
Tickets ₦3,000, redeemable against a book
Nov 2026
Saturday, 2pm
In conversation with Ines Marrow: writing the places we leave
Yaba Literary Weekend, The Mill Room
Tickets ₦7,000 from the festival
Nov 2026
Wednesday, 6.30pm
Writing weather: a two-hour workshop for new writers
Quayside Writers’ Centre, Studio 2
₦20,000, twelve places, booking essential
Dec 2026
Tuesday, 7pm
Book club night: The Weather Indoors, with chin chin
Hollin Street Books, Hollin Street
Free; reserve a seat with the shop
Jan 2027
Saturday, 11am
Book club live: ask me anything about Gull House
Online, link sent when you register
Free; register by 21 January
Mar 2027
Friday, 8pm
Ife Hills Book Festival: an evening reading
The Picture House Room
Tickets ₦5,000 from the festival
Three things I do well. Bookings go through my publicist, who handles dates, travel and fees.
I read from the latest novel (about fifteen minutes) and talk with a host or chair about the book, the place behind it and how it was written, then take questions and sign.
60 minutes, for festivals, bookshops and libraries
A practical two-hour workshop on setting and atmosphere for writers starting out: short exercises, a lot of reading aloud, and one page each to take home.
2 hours, up to 15 people
I join your book club for an hour, in person in Ibadan and Lagos or online anywhere, to talk about the novel you have read and answer everything.
60 minutes, in person or online
Tom Ashby, Publicity, Harrow Lane Books: publicity@harrowlane.example. Please write with the date, the venue and the audience. Biographies, hi-res author photos and covers are in the press kit.
“Nell held a room of three hundred people in total silence, then had them laughing within a minute. The signing queue went on for an hour.”
“Our book club has met for twenty years and nobody has ever asked an author back. We asked Nell back.”
New readings go to The Tideline a week before they go anywhere else, with the first chapter of Tidewrack in March.
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