Virginia Prize for Fiction
July 11, 2024 at 5:36 pm,
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I have received the exciting news that I have won The Virginia Prize for Fiction with my novel A Wilder Shore, jointly with the author Gillian Corderoy. Congratulations to both of us!
In the late 1990s, Roly’s student son Jonnie dies accidentally on a Greenpeace ship. Over the next two decades, Roly journeys through the landscapes of personal loss, which those around her understand, and climate grief, which they don’t, leading some to believe she is mentally ill. She is accompanied by Jonnie’s ghostly presence – and Jonnie instructs her to continue his work. A Wilder Shore is also a love story, of a husband and wife who are driven apart by Roly’s growing obsession with climate change, yet love each other deeply. The novel has interweaving and slowly converging timelines, leading up to the present.I am looking forward to the next steps...