One Day Blog Blitz - Far Cry From The Turquoise Room - 7/3/18
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Told from both daughter and father's perspectives, Far Cry From The Turquoise Room is a coming-of-age, riches-to-rags tale of loss, resilience, and self-discovery, set just before the millennium. It is also about the passage of childhood into puberty.
Leila is the eight-year-old daughter of Hassan Nassiri, a wealthy Iranian property owner, and younger sister to the adored Fayruz, her father's favourite daughter.
But a holiday narrowboat tragedy has far-reaching consequences for the surviving family. Hassan withdraws into reclusive grief, when he’s not escaping into work, or high jinks with his men friends at his second home in Hampstead, leaving Leila to fend for herself in a lonely world of nannies, chess and star-gazing.
Leila eventually runs away from home and joins a family of travellers in Sussex, and so follows a tale of adventure, danger and romance – and further anguish for her surviving family. But how will she fare at such a young age and will her family ever find her?
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Far Cry From The Turquoise Room by Kate Rigby
Today on my Blog I have the pleasure of Sharing with you......
Far Cry From The Turquoise Room
I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources and Kate Rigby for inviting me on the Blog Tour.
All the information you need about this beautiful book including my Review can be found below.
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Book Information
Leila is the eight-year-old daughter of Hassan Nassiri, a wealthy Iranian property owner, and younger sister to the adored Fayruz, her father's favourite daughter.
But a holiday narrowboat tragedy has far-reaching consequences for the surviving family. Hassan withdraws into reclusive grief, when he’s not escaping into work, or high jinks with his men friends at his second home in Hampstead, leaving Leila to fend for herself in a lonely world of nannies, chess and star-gazing.
Leila eventually runs away from home and joins a family of travellers in Sussex, and so follows a tale of adventure, danger and romance – and further anguish for her surviving family. But how will she fare at such a young age and will her family ever find her?
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My Review
4☆ A Compelling Read!
Far Cry From The Turquoise Room is a read that will touch your heart.
At first it took me a while to get used to the writing style. As the story is told mainly by Leila as a 10year old - 12years
And her father Hassan.
From early on you can tell Leila is overshadowed by her older sister Fayruz.
But when the girls go on a boating holiday tragedy strikes and Fayruz drowns.
I feel deeply sorry for Leila shes a 10yr old girl whose parents are so deep into their grief that they abandon Leila their child who so desperately craves love & reassurance.
She is trying her best to make her parents feel alive again. Whilst trying to make sense of the world.
My heart goes out to her!
It's no wonder she decides to run away.
Leila comes alive when she meets 10year old April and her Father a traveller.
She feels free and loved.
I didn't like Hassan to start with. He has a secret life that I didn't expect, although I wasn't really sure what the revelation brought to the story.
However he did redeem himself when he goes looking for Leila.
The ending for me ended a lil abruptly which I'm hoping will be a second book.
This is a thought provoking story, it's emotional, it's a coming of age story, deals with grief, sexuality, lifestyle.
A wonderful compelling short read.
Which I highly recommend.
Far Cry From The Turquoise Room is a read that will touch your heart.
At first it took me a while to get used to the writing style. As the story is told mainly by Leila as a 10year old - 12years
And her father Hassan.
From early on you can tell Leila is overshadowed by her older sister Fayruz.
But when the girls go on a boating holiday tragedy strikes and Fayruz drowns.
I feel deeply sorry for Leila shes a 10yr old girl whose parents are so deep into their grief that they abandon Leila their child who so desperately craves love & reassurance.
She is trying her best to make her parents feel alive again. Whilst trying to make sense of the world.
My heart goes out to her!
It's no wonder she decides to run away.
Leila comes alive when she meets 10year old April and her Father a traveller.
She feels free and loved.
I didn't like Hassan to start with. He has a secret life that I didn't expect, although I wasn't really sure what the revelation brought to the story.
However he did redeem himself when he goes looking for Leila.
The ending for me ended a lil abruptly which I'm hoping will be a second book.
This is a thought provoking story, it's emotional, it's a coming of age story, deals with grief, sexuality, lifestyle.
A wonderful compelling short read.
Which I highly recommend.
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Author Bio
Kate Rigby was born near Liverpool and now lives in the south west of England. She’s been writing for nearly forty years, with a few small successes along the way, although she has long term health conditions. Having been traditionally published, small press published and she is now indie published.
She realized her unhip credentials were mounting so she decided to write about it. Little Guide to Unhip was first published in 2010 and it has since been updated.
However, she’s not completely unhip. Her punk novel, Fall Of The Flamingo Circus was published by Allison & Busby (1990) and by Villard (American hardback 1990). Skrev Press published her novels Seaview Terrace (2003) Sucka!(2004) and Break Point (2006) and other shorter work has appeared in Skrev’s avant garde magazine Texts’ Bones.
Thalidomide Kid was published by Bewrite Books (2007).
She has had other short stories published and shortlisted including Hard Workers and Headboards, first published in The Diva Book of Short Stories and as part of the Dancing In The Dark erotic anthology, Pfoxmoor Publishing (2011). Hard Workers is to republished for a third time - in an anthology called ‘Condoms & Hot Tubs Don’t Mix’ - an anthology of Sexcapades - which is due to be published by Beating Windward Press in the US in February 2018. It is her shortest ever story and yet the most popular in that sense! All proceeds will go towards planned parenthood.
She also received a Southern Arts bursary for her novel Where A Shadow Played (now re-Kindled as Did You Whisper Back?).
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Thanks so much for reviewing this and hosting me on your blog :)
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