Sail Upon the Land

Autorentext

Josa Young was born on a chicken farm in Kent, England, and spent her early years running wild in the countryside with her brothers. When she was seven everything changed. Her parents moved to the top of a isolated hill miles from friends and family, and she was sent away to boarding school. Just when she needed to, she found she could read after all. The next ten years were spent hiding from the harsh boarding school atmosphere in books, from which she emerged to study English Literature at Cambridge University. She always knew she wanted to write, but had to figure out a way of making a living while doing so. Fiction was for fun and, as a finalist in the Vogue Talent Contest, she went to work at Vogue magazine. She has been a features editor and writer on many magazines and newspapers - including Vogue, Tatler, Country Living, Elle Decoration and the Times - and created her first online content in 1996, which she is still doing 20 years later. She blogs for the Huffington Post, and performs her poetry in London regularly. Her first novel One Apple Tasted was published in 2009 by Elliott & Thompson, her second, Sail Upon the Land, was published in December 2014. She lives in London.

Klappentext

The mysterious death of a young mother damages the precious, protective bonds of love. Sail Upon the Land tells the tale of four generations of mothers and their children, spanning 80 turbulent years of English history. From the hills of India to London's ballrooms, crumbling country mansions to hospital corridors, the novel has been described as 'delicious', 'heart-breaking' and 'full of drama, pain, suffering, steadfastness and ultimately redemption'. SARAH Is the courage she displays during WWII enough to carry her through a long life of love and loss? MELISSA Living in her own fairytale, will she find the strength she needs to survive reality? DAMSON Rejecting her background following a frightening ordeal, can she ever find her way home? MELLITA Who is she really, and will she deliver the one precious gift that will heal all their wounds? What independent readers and reviewers have to say: 'Powerful, familiar, heart-wrenching characters that leached into my heart.' 'Compulsive reading.' 'Unputdownable.' 'Read it and weep.' 'Unusually well-written.' 'It's a really enjoyable read, which often had me wanting to reach into the book to give the characters a much-needed hug!' 'The writing was gritty and real, particularly the parts concerned with birth and motherhood.'