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The Point Where The Ocean Ends. Siobhan Murphy. Extract and Competition!


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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.




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Competition


Giveaway to Win a Booklover Gift Box (Open to UK only)


Prize contains:


Booklover Gift Box: Includes some bookish treats and goodies to relax you whilst you

read

Signed copy of The Point Where the Ocean Ends

Book mark

Colour-coded book tabs

Blank photographic card of Cornish scene

Pencils

Bath Salts

Face mask

Biscuits

Night time Tea


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third parties, with the exception of the winners’ information. This will passed to the giveaway

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