A Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden
A Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden
Thanks to Caitlin Hamilton Marketing & Publicity, LLC, I am giving away one print copy of A Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden.
Description of A Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden
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.
Praise for A Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden
“Readers will enjoy this novel of second chances, not only at love but at life, reminiscent of Terry McMillan’s How Stella Got Her Groove Back.”—Booklist
“Reading A Drop in the Ocean was everything a reading experience should be, endearing and enduring, time spent with characters who seem to be people I already knew.”—Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times #1 best-selling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Two If By Sea
“ . . . . brilliantly written . . . . A powerful read that I highly recommend to readers everywhere.”—Danielle Urban, Readers’ Favorite
About Jenni Ogden
Jenni Ogden grew up in a country town in the South Island of New Zealand, in a home bursting with books and music. Armed with NZ and Australian university degrees in zoology and psychology, she took up a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked with H.M., the most famous amnesiac in history, before returning to an academic position at Auckland University. There, she immersed herself in clinical psychology and neuropsychology, as well as traveling extensively and writing about her patients’ moving stories in two books, Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology and Trouble In Mind: Stories from a Neuropsychologist’s Casebook.
Jenni has had a love affair with the Great Barrier Reef since her twenties, when she spent summers on a coral cay rather like Turtle Island, tagging sea turtles. Ogden and her husband now live off-grid on a spectacular island off the coast of NZ, with winters spent traveling and at their second home in tropical Far North Queensland. When she is not writing or traveling, Jenni can be found on the beach—always with a book—or spending time with her family.
Please visit Jenni online at the following places
facebook.com/JenniOgdenbooks?_rdr=p
https://nz.linkedin.com/in/jenniogdenbooks
goodreads.com/author/show/227694.Jenni_Ogden
Or check out her blog “Trouble in Mind” on Psychology Today, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/trouble-in-mind-0.
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Giveaway of A Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden
This giveaway is open to Canada and the U.S. only and ends on May 20, 2016 at midnight pacific time. Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.
This novel sounds captivating, the story, setting and emotions interest me greatly.
What a wonderful idea. Wouldn’t it be idyllic to live on a South Seas island for even a little while? Thanks Teddy.
Sounds very intriguing, both the plot and the location. Thanks for the giveaway.
I like the neuroscientist as protagonist aspect, and the fairly unique geographical setting for me personally. Thanks for bringing this worthy read to my attention, Teddy Rose! Cheers, Kara S