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I thought I would share a new novel with you Bone Whispers: A Novel by Rosalind Brackenbury Coffeetown Press, Feb. 14, 2024. You can also purchase the novel on Amazon.
I’ve been trying to get David to read more with me and this week David picked up Bone Whispers: A Novel and read the back of the book. Once finding out its about Nessa a women in her seventies David couldn’t wait to read the book.
David liked finding out there is a mystery in the story as bones are dug up on the Beach. It was fun to find out how she was connected to the women who fell from the Cliff. I loved seeing her childhood love Ted help her out.
If you like suspenseful dramas with a touch of mystery thrown in and a old Love then you will enjoy Bone Whispers: A Novel this story just as much as David and I did. David even let me know he can’t wait to visit Half-Price Books to see if they have more books by Rosalind Brackenbury.
About the book:
When the bones of a woman are dug up on a beach in Dorset, whose are they? How do they connect with Nessa Halloran’s present life as memories of her English post-war childhood emerge to haunt her?
Nessa, now in her seventies, is back in England from the US to take care of her inherited house on the coast of Dorset. She arrives to hear news of human bones—a woman’s bones—dug up on the beach, after a Cliff fall.
As she walks the paths of her childhood again, memories begin to return. Whose bones are these? Why does she have the growing feeling that they are connected with her? How does the present echo the past? What place do guilt and recrimination take in her present life—and who, apart from her childhood love, Ted, can help her find the truth of what really happened?
About the Author: Rosalind Brackenbury
Rosalind Brackenbury was born in London, England, grew up in the UK and has lived in Scotland and France. She has lived in Key West for nearly 30 years with her American husband.
She has been writing all her life and has published novels and collections of Poetry, as well as award-winning short stories. She was Creative Writing Fellow at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA, in 2006 and 2012.
In Key West she has run yearly poetry and prose workshops at The Studios of Key West and she has been featured both as panelist and moderator at the Key West Literary Seminar. She was Key West’s second Poet Laureate in 2014-15. She has a daughter and a son, both living in the UK.
Rosalindbrackenbury.com
Paperback and Ebook editions available: Publication Date: February 14, 2024 Paperback: 228 pages
$16.95 ISBN-10: 1684921457 ISBN-13: 978-1684921454
Praise for
MISS STEPHEN’S APPRENTICESHIP
“With uncommon grace and wit, Rosalind Brackenbury investigates Virginia Woolf’s journey from Victorian daughter to great writer. It takes a writer to truly see another writer’s awakening, and Brackenbury’s gifts as a novelist and poet inform this telling of ‘what happens inside the head and body of a writer’—that irreducible alchemy. A necessary book.”
—Nancy Schoenberger, author, Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood
“The book is as timely as it is compelling since it illuminates the perennial question: Can one learn to become a genius? While Rosalind Brackenbury is too honest to answer this (unanswerable) inquiry definitively, her attempts are supple, fecund, engrossing.
That her voice is a charming mix of casual intelligence, erudition, and striking lyricism makes her musings all the more captivating. With clarity, brevity, insight, and wit, the text describes the challenges and rewards of the writing life as well as offers bracing advice for writers, ranging from ‘read avidly’ to ‘pay attention’ to ‘set a routine’ to ‘push to emotional extremes.’”
—Eric G. Wilson, author, My Business Is to Create
“ Rosalind Brackenbury deserves major attention for her major accomplishments. She keeps turning out beautifully written, smart, absorbing novels that satisfy me in every way. One is better than the next and Without Her, about love and friendship changing with age, is her best.”
— Phyllis Rose, author of Parallel Lives and My Year of Reading Proust
“I absolutely loved this book…” on Without Her
— Annie Dillard, author of The Maytrees
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
