Slanting Towards the Sea (Simon & Schuster, August 2025)

Slanting Towards the Sea is a work of Literary Fiction with Book Club potential. Spanning the course of twenty years and one life-altering summer, it is part exploration of what it means to be a Millennial in a country younger than oneself, part meditation on the importance of being seen, and a love letter to my hometown, Zadar, Croatia.

Told in the vein of Lily King’s Writers & Lovers; Madelaine Lucas’s Thirst for Salt, and Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace, Slanting Towards the Sea is an adult-coming-of-age narrative with a complex and timless love story at its heart, set in an unforgettable, transporting setting.

An early draft of this novel won the CritiqueMatch’s Fiction Five contest in Literary Fiction category in March 2021, and was longlisted in the BPA Pitch Prize in December 2022.

Get to know the setting…

  • Old Roman Forum and St. Donatus Church in Zadar

  • Sea Promenade in Zadar

  • Kornati National Park

  • The Cold Bura Wind Sweeping Over the Sea

  • A Cluster of Stone-built Houses for The Imaginary Hamlet, Lovorun

  • Cemetery in Cavtat