The Sea Change

Name: The Sea Change
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ISBN: 9780241964156

Joanna Rossiter

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English

Penguin Books Ltd
14 June 2013

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A lost village taken by the war office in 1943, and an Indian beach town devastated by a tsunami in 1971- a mother and daughter's stories intertwine in this deft novel about the landscapes we live in, and what it means to lose them

Things that perhaps would have drifted apart or never even touched have found themselves thrown inseparably together.

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.

As Alice searches for her husband in the debris of the wave she is forced to face up to some truths about herself she has been hiding from. Meanwhile Violet is compelled to return to Imber to discover just why she abandoned her great love . . .

By: Joanna Rossiter
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780241964156
ISBN 10: 0241964156
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 14 June 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joanna Rossiter grew up in Dorset and studied English at Cambridge University before working as a researcher in the House of Commons and as a copy writer. In 2011 she completed an MA in Writing at Warwick University. The Sea Change is her first novel. She lives and writes in London.