If the Fernweh women’s inexplicable gifts on By-the-Sea—Georgina’s family legacy, Mary’s uncertainty, and that ageless bird drawing summer pilgrims—enchanted you, you’ll sink right into the Rue family’s wonders in The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender. Ava is born with wings, and the novel treats that strangeness with the same hush and inevitability as the Fernwehs’ talents, letting the magic color love, small-town gossip, and danger without ever over-explaining it.

If By-the-Sea’s wind-whipped isolation, the annual anticipation of a legendary bird, and the tight-knit community Georgina navigates felt vivid to you, The Scorpio Races brings similar island intimacy on Thisby, where dangerous water horses surface each autumn. Like the way Georgina and Mary are bound up in their home’s traditions, Puck Connolly and Sean Kendrick are entwined with a ritual that defines the island, yielding the same moody atmosphere and tender, hard-won connections.

If you were swept up by the salt-sweet, lyrical voice that carries Georgina through mystery, first love with Prue, and the island’s dark undercurrents, The Ocean at the End of the Lane offers that same dreamlike hush. Its narrator returns to a rural lane where the Hempstock women guard old powers—much as the Fernweh lineage quietly steadies By-the-Sea—blending memory, menace, and wonder in language that feels like tidewater pulling you under.

If following Georgina as she comes into herself—balancing family magic, a fierce bond with Mary, and a tender romance with Prue—was your favorite part, Wild Beauty echoes that journey. Five cousins in La Pradera’s enchanted gardens wield gifts that bloom and bruise their lives, and when a mysterious boy appears, they confront the truths their matriarchs kept, much like the Fernwehs’ secrets shadowing By-the-Sea.

If the way Summer of Salt asks a community to believe girls and face harm—after the assault that shatters By-the-Sea’s rituals—stayed with you, The Astonishing Color of After meets that same moral clarity with gentleness and awe. Leigh believes her mother became a bird and journeys to Taiwan to untangle truth from myth; that bird imagery and the insistence on believing one’s experience mirror Georgina’s fight to name what happened and to choose justice.