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Book Description
A lifetime of searching
A restless, nomadic journey
And a secret kept buried for years
As winter turns to spring on the North Cornish coast, Kerensa O’Connell receives an unexpected
message relating to a passionate relationship deep in her past. A message that stirs up memories
threatening to derail her comfortable life and her marriage.
While the world is forced to press the pause button, Kerensa has no choice but to slow down and
confront the demons that have plagued her throughout her life. Battling both mental and physical
health issues, she must decide once and for all what she is looking for and whom she wants by her
side.
Simultaneously unfolding over a few months and several decades, the story moves from the
windswept plains of East Africa to the stunning islands of the Great Barrier Reef, the tranquil
mountains of the Himalayas, and the bustling cities of Europe. Kerensa confronts happiness and
heartbreak through the lens of her camera and her connection to the people she loves. Piecing
together her memories of love, loss, and adventure, she starts to make sense of the choices she has
made and question the internal chaos that has always defined her.
A tale of colliding life paths, fate and chance.
A journey of discovery and coming to terms with the truth of the past.
An unforgettable love story with the mystery of an ambiguous figure at its heart and a reminder that
letting go of the past can take a lifetime
Extract
Context – the protagonist is in her mid 20s living away from home and dealing with
homesickness.
On Separate Continents
Wanting to be somewhere else was never, ever simple. I think people thought I
found it easy to leave. To get on a plane and go once again. I was further from some friends
and family, nearer to others. Wherever I was in life, someone was always too far away,
painfully distant. My loved ones were spread all around the world. Separate continents,
inconvenient time zones, different hemispheres. Light years away, or so it felt.
It is impossible to have all those you love close by and still be where you want to
be. It is impossible to spend enough time with people. It is impossible to know when it
will be the last time you see someone, hug someone, speak to someone.
My grandfather died while I was overseas. The funeral was only small, so my
mother told me it was too far to fly home, that everyone understood. Rhys did his best to
comfort me. We were in one of our phases where life was strained. The cacophony in my
head, the voices, thoughts, confusion were making me more and more insecure. I felt like
a burden to him. I lived in constant fear of rejection, and he became even more distant.
My grandfather wrote to me every couple of weeks, telling me things about his
world. A world he found lonely after my grandmother died. So many of the envelopes up
in the loft were written by him, sent from that little terraced house in the Welsh valleys.
The house I visited so often as a child.
Airmail could be erratic. Letters often went astray or took a long time to arrive.
Sometimes they travelled by surface mail in error. So, three weeks after my grandfather
died, a letter came from Wales.
It was the strangest thing. Words from beyond the grave. It took me days to open
the letter. I wanted so badly to hear his voice and yet a huge part of me couldn’t face it. In
the end I poured a gin and tonic, something my grandmother would most certainly have
approved of, and I sat in the garden in the sunshine. I expect he wrote other words near
the end, but these were the last ones he wrote with me in his mind. The letter, as always,
ended with ‘God Bless’.
I don’t think an email would ever have had the poignancy of that final letter.
Author Bio
Siobhan Murphy is a contemporary women's fiction author based in the UK. She spent many years
drifting around the world in search of adventure and trying to figure out what to do with her life. She
still isn’t sure if she's found the answer, but having rattled on about writing books for years, she
finally did something about it. At present, writing feels like the perfect job, and is providing her with
an enormous amount of pleasure. Along the way she has worked in places as diverse as the High
Commission in Nairobi; a market stall selling cheese in the UK and an 80-foot racing yacht in
Australia. She's been a secondary school English teacher and a Barista with no discernible talent for
making coffee. She's been a bossy PA and an uninspired private equity fund administrator. Probably
her favourite job ever was as a bookseller for Waterstones, where she loved recommending books to
customers and applying those 3 for 2 stickers that are hard to remove. For the last 17 years she's
worked as a professional photographer, taking portraits of human beings, often the really, really
small ones. She suffers from a condition called Pareidolia, which causes her to see faces in everyday
objects. Her hobbies are eating sweets, talking nonsense and walking into rooms wondering why she
is there. She constantly overthinks everything and will no doubt keep deleting and re-writing this bio
for the foreseeable future. Her first novel was sponsored by Earl Grey Tea and many, many, many
glasses of wine.
Social Media Links
Website: https://siobhanmurphyauthor.co.uk/
Competition
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