Dancing with Dragons - Ogden, Jenni

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Résumé :
From Jenni Ogden, author of multiple-award-winning A Drop in the Ocean, comes another evocative story of friendship, coral reefs, and marine conservation for book-club readers. It is the late 1970s and Gaia and Bron live on their isolated property on Western Australia's Coral Coast. Intensively trained for a ballet career by her mother, Gaia also loves snorkeling over the coral reef that borders their property. Then comes a day that changes her life forever: she discovers a rare pair of dramatically-colored seadragons, their courtship dance over the coral spellbinding, and that night she loses her entire family and her dancing dream. Two years later she returns to the abandoned property, determined to live off the land. For years her only friends are the wild animals of the bush and reef and Mary and Eddie, an Aboriginal couple who work for the racist farmer on the neighboring property - until one morning Jarrah, Mary's 11-year-old orphaned nephew, is entranced when he sees Gaia, now 18, dancing on the beach. As an unlikely friendship between these two lonely and scarred people deepens, they discover that when you lose everything the only way to survive is to open your heart. 2024 Independent Publisher Book Award GOLD MEDALIST FOR FICTION, Australia/New Zealand-Aotearoa/Pacific Rim...

Biographie:
Jenni Ogden and her husband live off-grid on spectacular Great Barrier Island, 100 kms off the coast of New Zealand, a perfect place to write and for grandchildren to spend their holidays. Her new novel, 'Dancing with Dragons', is the winner of the Gold Medal for Best Fiction, Australia/New Zealand-Aotearoa/Pacific Rim in the 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Jenni and husband John often spend winters in Far North Tropical Queensland, close to Killara, the fictional home in' Call My Name', her third novel. Her debut novel published in 2016, 'A Drop in the Ocean', won multiple awards and has sold over 85,000 copies. Her second novel, 'The Moon is Missing', was published in 2020 and is set in London, New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and on Great Barrier Island, NZ! Jenni-who holds a PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology and was awarded the Distinguished Career Award by the International Neuropsychological Society in 2015- is well-known for her books featuring her patients' moving stories: 'Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology', and 'Trouble In Mind: Stories from a Neuropsychologist's Casebook'....

Sommaire:
Jenni Ogden and her husband live off-grid on spectacular Great Barrier Island, 100 kms off the coast of New Zealand, a perfect place to write and for grandchildren to spend their holidays. Her new novel, 'Dancing with Dragons', is the winner of the Gold Medal for Best Fiction, Australia/New Zealand-Aotearoa/Pacific Rim in the 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Jenni and husband John often spend winters in Far North Tropical Queensland, close to Killara, the fictional home in' Call My Name', her third novel. Her debut novel published in 2016, 'A Drop in the Ocean', won multiple awards and has sold over 85,000 copies. Her second novel, 'The Moon is Missing', was published in 2020 and is set in London, New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and on Great Barrier Island, NZ! Jenni-who holds a PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology and was awarded the Distinguished Career Award by the International Neuropsychological Society in 2015- is well-known for her books featuring her patients' moving stories: 'Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology', and 'Trouble In Mind: Stories from a Neuropsychologist's Casebook'....