Ann E Brockbank Novelist

Tuesday 26 June 2018

Ann E Brockbank Novelist - 'The Glittering Sea' New Cornish based historical novel

Tuesday 26^th June 2018 - It’s publication day!

My fourth Cornish based historical novel ‘The Glittering Sea’ is now available to buy on Amazon and Amazon Kindle.

Set before during and after WW1, ‘The Glittering Sea’ is an enduring story of love, loss, duty and friendship.

Taken from the back of the book

From the moment Lyndon FitzSimmons, a master hedge layer, encounters beautiful Jenna Trevone sketching in a Cornish field, they find themselves instinctively drawn together by their shared love of nature and spend an idyllic, golden summer together. But when autumn falls, Jenna is forced to make a heart-breaking choice between love and duty.

Through the pain of separation their hearts continue to beat as one, but when a glimmer of hope promises to reunite them, the dark clouds of war are gathering. As the world finds itself thrust into a conflict unlike any had seen before, Lyndon is dragged into a hell-on-earth scenario. All they can hope for is to try and find their way safely back to each other …

This spellbinding tale will take you on journey from the hedgerows and coastline of Cornwall to the trenches of the Western Front and onto the bohemian life of the ‘Bright Young Things’ of post-war London.

This Cornish based novel is set in these beautiful locations -

The Trevarno Estate,

Helston Cornwall

Trevarno boat house/lake

Trevarno waterfall

Gweek on the Helford River

Gweek Bridge

Helford River, Gweek

Church Cove, Gunwalloe, Cornwall

Church Cove, Gunwalloe

Also by Ann E Brockbank

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Wednesday 23 May 2018

See the book trailer for my romantic novel 'On a Distant Shore'

Monday 30 April 2018

Author in residence at Poldhu Beach Cafe

During my break from blogging, I have been back at my desk, (beachside office) writing a new Cornish novel and immersing myself in the years 1913 - 1919.

Beachside Office at Poldhu Beach Café, Cornwall

I have a good feeling about this book. The words flowed from my head through my fingers. Sometimes I felt as though I couldn't type fast enough. It’s wonderful that all the characters which have kept me awake for many months have now been born onto the page.

I love writing all parts of my novel. First getting the bare bones of the story down is such an amazing feeling. The passion and urgency to tell the story, keeps me writing long into the night. Fortunately I have more time my hands now, so I am free to write until I am bone tired…which I do. Oh what a wonderful feeling. The second draft put the flesh onto the bones and the third draft is practically a re-write. After many edits and re-writes the story is ready to go out into the world.

Hopefully published very soon.

As with all my novels The Glittering Sea is partially set in the beautiful river village of Gweek, Cornwall. I will also take you to the Trevarno Estate Nr Helston and Gunwalloe Cove.

Set between the years 1912 to 1920, the story is an intimate portrayal of two young star-crossed lovers swept along by circumstances beyond their control.

Trevarno Estate, Nr Helston, Cornwall

The Bridge at the centre of the river village of Gweek, Cornwall

Gweek circa 1920. Courtesy of cornishmemory.com

Taken from the back of the book.

‘The Glittering Sea’ is an enduring story of love, loss, duty and friendship.

From the moment Lyndon FitzSimmons, a master hedge layer, encounters beautiful Jenna Trevone drawing in a Cornish corn field, they find themselves instinctively drawn together by their shared love of nature and spend an idyllic, golden summer together. But when autumn falls, Jenna is forced to make a heart-breaking choice between love and duty.

Through the pain of separation their hearts continue to beat as one, but when a glimmer of hope promises to reunite them, the dark clouds of war are gathering. As the world finds itself thrusts into a conflict unlike any had seen before, Lyndon is dragged into a hell-on-earth scenario. All they can hope for is to try and find their way safely back to each other …

The Glittering Sea at Gunwalloe, Cornwall

Book cover to be revealed soon.

‘The Glittering Sea’ was inspired by my own grandfather who fought in the Great War.

Also by Ann E Brockbank

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Friday 21 July 2017

Ann E Brockbank Author - Book recommendation

As an author myself, I love to read other people's books.

Let me tell you about the book I have just finished reading.

‘The Love Song of Miss Queeney Hennessey’ by Rachel Joyce.

Heart-breaking, touching, tragic and funny in equal measure, that just about sums up ‘The Love Song of Miss Queeney Hennessey’ by Rachel Joyce. It is a truly amazing read. If you have read and loved ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ this is an absolute must. This is not a sequel or a prequel; it is as Rachel Joyce says a companion to Harold Fry’s journey. Bringing Queeney’s story to the forefront, you wait and listen and cry with her as she recalls her memories of how and why she moved away from everything she knew to live in Northumberland. Throughout the book, her memories are punctuated with the progress of Harold Fry’s epic journey from Dorset to Berwick on Tweed to save her. Tissues at the ready.

Blurb taken from Amazon

When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait?

A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell Harold everything. In confessing to secrets she has hidden for twenty years, she will find atonement for the past. As the volunteer points out, ‘Even though you’ve done your travelling, you’re starting a new journey too.’

Queenie thought her first letter would be the end of the story. She was wrong. It was the beginning.

Told in simple, emotionally-honest prose, with a mischievous bite, this is a novel about the journey we all must take to learn who we are; it is about loving and letting go. And most of all it is about finding joy in unexpected places and at times we least expect.

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It was about three years ago that I read ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ and I absolutely loved it. I don't think I have met a single person who has read it and not enjoyed it, and we all share the same feeling for it.

Blurb taken from Amazon

When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life.

If you haven't already read it, I highly recommend you do.

In fact I highly recommended you read both of the books mentioned above, but read ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ first.

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Ann E Brockbank is the author of three Cornish Based novels

On a Distant Shore, The Blue Bay Café and Mr de Sousa's Legacy

Available from Amazon and Amazon Kindle

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Thursday 13 July 2017

What do authors read?

Book on my bedside table

One of my great passions is reading, either in bed or on my hammock outside. I find it is the most wonderful way to relax. Reading lots of books is extremely beneficial to a writer. The more you read, the more you learn different techniques of structuring a story. I probably read somewhere in the region of 14 to 15 books a year. You’d think I wouldn’t have time to write my own novel, but I find it’s a wonderful way to switch off from ones own novel writing.

This is my bedtime/hammock reading at the moment. ‘The Love Song of Queen Hennessey’, by Rachel Joyce.

It’s a perfect companion book to the fabulous novel ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’. If you have never read the latter then you have missed a real treat. It is one of the most moving novels I’ve read for a long time. I highly recommend it.

Book Blurb - taken from Amazon

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Ann E Brockbank is the author of three Cornish based novels.

Available from Amazon and to download to you kindle.

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Tuesday 18 April 2017

Book Review for Diana Gabaldon's A Breath of Snow and Ashes

I have just finished A Breath of Snow and Ashes, the sixth book in Diana Gabaldon’s fabulous Outlander series and I have to say it was an absolute stunning read. I have never come across an author who can keep me glued to each and every page, or make the adrenalin rush though by body like Diana's writing can. Every subplot in this book had me on the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen next. Never before, have I been so enthralled in a book that I actual started to say the narrative out loud as I was reading it. What next for Jamie and Claire I say? I know I should give my poor heart a rest for a while and read something else before I pick up book seven, An Echo in the Bone, but I’m not sure I can resist. I am hooked.
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Tuesday 26 June 2018