News
December 2016
New Year, New Novel
December’s post is sneaking in just days before the new year, but I’m here and I have news! Earlier this month, The Comet Seekers got a wonderful and unexpected review in the New York Times Book Review from Andrea Barrett:
“A fluid narrative voice, pointedly lyrical and without a trace of irony, gives equal weight to the perceptions of both ghosts and living characters. And, as in the work of contemporary fabulists like Kelly Link, Helen Oyeyemi and Audrey Niffenegger, the real intersects matter-of-factly with the supernatural…Many of this novel’s pleasures have to do with teasing out the implications of Sedgwick’s intricate pattern…This web of associations, spun by recurring images and figures, lends a different spin to the idea of a love that’s meant to be.”
It’s a fascinating and thoughtful review, and a real honour. Thank you, Andrea Barrett!
My other piece of news, aside from the blizzard and storms (plural) that have kept us company over the holidays, is that my second novel, The Growing Season, is going to be published next year! It’s due out in August 2017 with Harvill Secker, and I’m looking forward to telling you more about it as things progress next year.
For now, I’m off to make a rhubarb and berry crumble, so I leave you with this photo of Christmas in the highlands. Merry holidays to you all, and a very happy New Year!
