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| Headline Review 2015 |
If someone saved your life, could you ever forget them?
The anticipation of reading a new
book by an author whose work you follow is always a huge treat and The Sea Between Us is no exception.
Emylia Hall has, once again, brought to life a complex and fascinating look at
two people who seem fated, always, to be just one step out of sync with the
other.
When Jago Winters rescues Robyn
Swinton from drowning, a connection is forged which will echo between them for
years. Living so close to each other in Cornwall, Robyn and Jago come to depend
on each other, there is an undeniable chemistry between them, but all too often
fate dictates a very different path.
In The Sea Between Us, the author intertwines the stories of two
families, She cleverly uses the relationships between them and focuses on
shared experiences between Robyn and her parents, Jago and his father, and of
the burgeoning attraction between two young people. But the story isn’t all
about people, it’s also a love story to Cornwall, to such an extent that
Cornwall became for me, one of the abiding threads of the whole story.
Rockabilly, the hidden cove where Robyn practices surfing comes alive so
vividly in your mind that you clamber over jagged rocks to hear the rolling
waves and wipe the tang of sea spray from your lips. The tactile beauty of Jago’s
exquisite wood carving and the beautiful descriptions of the wooden horses he
so lovingly recreates left me desperate to find one for myself.
There is no doubt that this
author has the ability to create written magic, her skillful weaving of all the
story threads guarantees right from the beginning that there is never a moment
when the story doesn’t work, when it doesn’t pull you into an imaginary world,
so lovingly recreated.
I don’t make book of the year
recommendations lightly but The Sea
Between Us is definitely on my recommended list for 2015.
About the Author
Follow Emylia on Twitter @Emylia Hall
Follow Emylia on Twitter @Emylia Hall
My thanks to Headline Review, Bookbridgr and NetGalley for my copies of this book
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I adored this and agree it's one of THE books of 2015
ReplyDeleteI agree it's a wonderful story Linda - I loved it :)
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