Another day, another book!

This evening the Literature Festival took me out of Bath and to my local library where I spent a very enjoyable evening listening to a local author:

Joanna Rossiter, author of the 2014 Big Bath Read The Sea Change, discusses her acclaimed debut novel, the story’s roots in the West Country and her life as an author.

"The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter is a haunting and moving novel about a mother and a daughter, caught between a tsunami and a war.

Yesterday was Alice's wedding day. She is thousands of miles away from the home she is so desperate to leave, on the southernmost tip of India, when she wakes in the morning to see a wave on the horizon, taller than the height of her guest house on Kanyakumari beach. Her husband is nowhere to be seen.

On the other side of the world, unhappily estranged from her daughter, is Alice's mother, Violet. Forced to leave the idyllic Wiltshire village, Imber, in which she grew up after it was requisitioned by the army during the Second World War, Violet is haunted by the shadow of the man she loved and the wilderness of a home that lies in ruins." Amazon


Of all the books that I've read/started to read recently, this is by far the best, and I would thoroughly recommend it. The author wrote this book at the ripe old age of 24, and now at 27, and as the mother of a newborn baby, she has just completed her second book! Joanna was a lovely lady to listen and talk to, and was very happy to have her photo taken for Blip, maybe in the hope that you'd all go out and buy her book!