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Title: The Sea Change

Author: Joanna Rossiter

Narrator: Penny McDonald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-14

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Yesterday was Alices wedding day. She is thousands of miles away from home when she wakes to see a wave on the horizon, taller than her guest house on Kanyakumari beach. Her husband is nowhere to be seen. On the other side of the world is Alices mother, Violet. Forced to leave the idyllic Wiltshire village, Imber, after it was requisitioned by the army, Violet is haunted by the shadow of the man she loved and the home that lies in ruins. As Alice searches for her husband, Violet is compelled to return to Imber to discover why she abandoned her great love.

Critic Reviews:

"Joanna Rossiter really shines with lovely, fluid, restrained writing" (Helen Dunmore)

Members Reviews:

A nice book

The book was well written and I enjoyed it. However, I found it unclear as to why the daughter was so angry with her mom in first place that she needed to move so far away. That was never clear to my from reading the book. However, the stories of the two generations were beautifully woven together.

Easy read

A number of themes and they were well intertwined. The first book I read involving the tsunami so it gave a good description of its' aftermath

Novel set in Imber, "The real life lost village" and India

This is quite a haunting read. Itâs about lost landscapes and the feeling of belonging you have to where you live and where you call home. Both places in the novel are taken away from those who live there. Imber was appropriated by the British Military in 1943 when they bought the land and forced those who lived there to leave. The land was then used for years as a practice ground for the soldiers stationed there. Never mind the church with the graves of those who died there or the sense that if youâve lived there all your life, you might want to stay. Itâs a story of people having their landscape robbed from them and itâs a painful story. The locations are the real characters in the story - not how they are described but how they are symbolic - showing the scars of the past and the recovery afterwards

When added to the story of a tsunami, another landscape brutally and forcibly taken from those who lived there, and itâs a story of scars, healing processes and hope amidst destruction and despair. The two stories read as opposite stories of one spectrum yet the two locations come across well and they are very much characters in the novel themselves. The Sea Change is the perfect title for this story and its themes of home, love, loss, and misunderstanding are evoked with the sights, tastes and aromas of two locations from opposite ends of the earth but with a story with a heart at its centre.

I quite enjoyed getting into the story

I'd give this book a 3 1/2 star review. Though it started out slowly, I quite enjoyed getting into the story. I did find that the chapters were at times a bit confusing...trying to keep track of who was the narrator, the mother or the daughter, was at times confusing, but I did manage to keep up with the story and have to say I enjoyed it. The book tells the story of a mother and daughter-Alice the daughter has argued with her Mother Violet and has travelled to a far corner of the world with her boyfriend. On their wedding day, a tsunami hits the remote beach village in India where they are staying and Alice barely survives the onslaught. Searching for her husband James, Alice eventually turns to Violet for help. Violet's story is equally complex.