New Indie Book Release:
Drumbeats - Julia Ibbotson
Contemporary Romance (262 pages - July 2014)
Drumbeats is a story of a teenager growing into the adult world - embedded in a spiritual recognition of the haunting message of the talking drumbeats of the West African bush villages. It’s a novel that makes the reader think, about issues, about human dilemmas, and will enable them to identify with the emotions and events.
About the Book
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Apprehensively, she leaves her first real romantic love behind in the UK, but will she be able to sustain the bond while she is away? With the idealism of youth, she hopes to find out who she really is, and do some good in the world, but she must find her way on her own and learn what fate has in store for her, as she becomes embroiled in the poverty and turmoil of a small war-torn African nation under a controversial dictatorship. Jess must face the dangers of both civil war and unexpected new romance.
But why do the drumbeats haunt her dreams? Is it her past – or something else?
About the Author
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| Author Julia Ibbotson |
Julia started writing as soon as she could hold a pencil in her tiny fist and has not stopped since, much to the bemusement of her long-suffering husband who brings her endless cups of coffee and sometimes even makes the dinner when she is distracted and frowning at her laptop.
She wrote her first novel when she was 10 years old, sadly never published and long since consigned to the manuscript graveyard. She loves writing novels with a strong sense of time and place and that is the basis of her latest, Drumbeats, the first of a trilogy which follows Jess through the trials and tribulations of her life. It starts with Jess on her gap year in Ghana in the 1960s.
She has also written the story of the restoration of her rectory in The Old Rectory: Escape to a Country Kitchen, which also interweaves recipes from her farmhouse kitchen and which has won a number of international awards.
Recently she found an old manuscript gathering dust in her drawer, one she had originally scribbled when she was still at school, many years ago. She has blown off the dust and has redrafted it for her publishers to let it loose on the world in the autumn. . It’s a children’s story about a boy who slips through a tear in the fabric of the universe to find himself in a fantasy medieval world. It’s called S.C.A.R.S.
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