A drop in the ocean : a novel / Jenni Ogden.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2016Description: 295 pages, 7 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781631520266
- 1631520261
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | Ogden, Jenni | Available | 33111008407468 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
GOLD: NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD, FICTION, LARGE PUBLISHER (2016)
GOLD: SARTON WOMEN'S BOOK AWARD, CONTEMPORARY FICTION (2016)
GOLD: INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS), BEST FICTION, AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND (2016)
SILVER: READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD, WOMEN'S FICTION
On her 49th birthday, Anna Fergusson, Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert, arrives at an unwanted crossroads when the funding for her research lab is cut. With her confidence shattered and her future uncertain, on impulse she rents a cabin for a year on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. However Turtle Island, alive with sea birds and nesting Green turtles, is not the retreat she expected. Here she finds love--for the eccentric islanders who become her family; for Tom, the laid-back turtle whisperer; and for the turtles whose ancient mothering instincts move her to tears. But Anna finds that even on her idyllic drop in the ocean there is pain, and as the months fly past her dream for a new life is threatened by a darkness that challenges everything she has come to believe about the power of love. Evocative and thought-provoking, A Drop in the Ocean is a story about second chances and hard lessons learned in the gentlest of ways.
After receiving a letter cutting her grant research funds, Dr. Anna Fergusson decides to rent a cabin on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Turtle Island turns out not to be the retreat she expected. "It is a story about love, sea turtles and an unthinkable choice."" -- author