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2000s – Robyn is saved from drowning in a remote Cornish cove by local man Jago and their lives will never be the same again.
The Sea Between Us
What you need to know before your trail
When Robyn and her parents move to Cornwall, it’s the start of their new lives and Robyn decides to join in with the local hobby of surfing. However her first attempt goes horribly wrong and she has to be rescued by local boy Jago Winter. Not surprisingly this sets up a bond between then which is to last them a lifetime.
Despite them going their separate ways, fate has not finished with these two but like the currents of the sea which threatened to claim Robyn, the currents in life could be equally as turbulent. Are they destined to be pulled apart for ever?
Travel Guide
Emylia Hall gives a tour : (the hamlet of Merrin and Rockabilly Cove are fictional creations)
Sennen Cove – the glorious sandy beach of Sennen Cove features in the story as a setting for several scenes with Robyn and her family. There’s something about its bright light and wide-open aspect that encourages people to open up too – I think water often has that effect, we look out over the ocean and see ourselves looking back.
St Ives – one of my absolute favourite places – I’ve holidayed there for the last three summers, and I wrote sections of the book while staying in the town. Robyn goes to the many galleries of St Ives, and enjoys an introspective moment in the garden of the Barbara Hepworth museum that helps decide her future.
Mousehole – It’s very much a place that I associate with the novel, and it features briefly in the story too. Jago remembers going there with his mum when he was a boy, clattering through the village together one winter’s night and stealing into a pub for a crafty bowl of chips and a glass of ale.
Penzance – Robyn comes and goes from the train station in Penzance, has a job in a café there, and it becomes an important place for her when her art career begins to take off.
St Just – St Just is mentioned only in passing in the novel, but I wanted to include it here as it’s the home of the celebrated artist Kurt Jackson. When I was stuck at my desk in Bristol, Jackson’s seascapes inspired much of my writing about the water.
New Mexico where Jago lives on his ranch – The red-dusted, dry landscape of a New Mexican summer is such a contrast to the lush, watery Cornwall of the book.
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Booktrailer Review
Susan:
How I love this book! If this book were music, it would be a lovely haunting ondulating melody to evoke the sea.
Do you know that feeling when you sit down to read a book and you really feel as if you’re about to go on a great journey? This might read as a love story with obstacles but it is so much more than this. I was totally captivate with the lovely heartfelt prose which captured the setting of Cornwall but the essence of the sea, that cove and the surf. What a world created in just this part of the book and I was captivate by how the two met and the story which followed.
There are so many missed chances and opportunities here that I cried out No! on more than one occasion. Why did she leave? Why didn’t he just say something? Bu tthen that’s life I guess and it really goes to show that you should live in the moment and just say what you mean.
I really liked getting to know Robyn and Jago and their world. Emylia Hall has created a setting and a story that swept me up and tugged at the old heartstrings!
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