The Point Where the Ocean Ends
A lifetime of searchingA restless, nomadic journeyAnd a secret kept buried for yearsAs 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
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Context – the protagonist is struggling with mental health issues and inner turmoil to do with someone from the past. She seeks solace in nature which can often calm her, but difficult memories still return.
Circles of Rebirth
On my way back through the village I passed an old man, hunched over two sticks, walking slowly but with dogged determination. Trying, for even a short time, to manage without the support of his nearby wheelchair. We smiled at one another, there was a connection. A sense of knowing that we were doing the same thing. Though a few decades separated us, we were both trying to reach out and touch something that made us feel alive. We were both trying to be reborn.
And so today, in the beauty of the countryside, I stood in between.
Between the light and the shadow.
Between the past and the future.
Between the dancing sunlight of the spring and the black claws of the winter.
And I waited for the circle to turn.
Stone Circles
I wake abruptly. The image of a Celtic circle in my mind, tears on my cheeks that must have started in my sleep.
I have always been drawn to circles. The sense of calm and symmetry to them that draws me in. I love the beach art that is made up of ever decreasing circles of pebbles. Painstaking works of art that exist only temporarily and are washed away by the sea. The water enveloping the beach and removing the beauty that had been created there. I am fascinated by the fact that stone circles exist. The book where my mum found my name is a story of a Cornish stone circle. Six novices who broke their vows and were turned to stone. Some see these merely as rocks in the ground, but others believe these are six young women, punished for eternity, frozen in a dance.
Like so much else, it all depends on how you see the world. If you believe in mysticism and spiritual magic. Most people agree the positions of the stones are related to the movements of the sun and the moon and their relative position to earth.
The stones, the sun, the moon, the earth. All these things are circular.
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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