Books & Books presents

ROSALIND BRACKENBURY
in conversation with Katrin Schumann
discussing her new book
BONE WHISPERS
(Coffeetown Press, $16.95)

Saturday, February 24th, 6:30pm ET
Doors open to Hugh's View at 6pm

About the book: When the bones of a woman are dug up on a beach in Dorset whose are they? How do they connect with Nessa Halloran’s present life as memories of her English post-war childhood emerge to haunt her? 

Nessa, now in her seventies, is back in England from the US to take care of her inherited house on the coast of Dorset. She arrives to hear news of human bones—a woman’s bones—dug up on the beach, after a cliff fall. As she walks the paths of her childhood again, memories begin to return.  Whose bones are these? Why does she have the growing feeling that they are connected with her? How does the present echo the past?  What place do guilt and recrimination take in her present life—and who, apart from her childhood love, Ted, can help her find the truth of what really happened?   

About the Author: Rosalind Brackenbury was born in London, England, grew up in the UK and has lived in Scotland and France. She has lived in Key West for nearly 30 years with her American husband. 

She has been writing all her life and has published novels and collections of poetry, as well as award-winning short stories. She was Creative Writing Fellow at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA, in 2006 and 2012. In Key West she has run yearly poetry and prose workshops at The Studios of Key West and she has been featured both as panelist and moderator at the Key West Literary Seminar. She was Key West’s second Poet Laureate in 2014-15.  She has a daughter and a son, both living in the UK.

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