A DROP IN THE OCEAN
by
Jenni Ogden
This May, She Writes Press releases A
DROP IN THE OCEAN, a first novel by acclaimed neuropsychologist and
nonfiction writer Jenni Ogden.
In the novel, Anna
Fergusson runs a lab researching Huntington’s disease at a prestigious Boston
university. When her long-standing grant is pulled unexpectedly, Anna finally
faces the truth: she’s 49, virtually friendless, single, and worse, her
research has been sub-par for years. With no jobs readily available, Anna takes
a leap and agrees to spend a year monitoring a remote campsite on Turtle Island
in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. What could be better for an introvert with
shattered self-esteem than a quiet year in paradise? As she settles in, Anna
opens her heart for the first time in decades—to new challenges, to new
friendships, even to a new love with Tom, the charming,
younger turtle
tagger she sometimes assists. But opening one’s heart leaves one vulnerable,
and Anna comes to realize that love is as fragile as happiness, and that both
are a choice.
A DROP IN THE OCEAN is a deeply moving novel about
second chances and last hopes, about loving and letting go, and about the power
in self-discovery.
RE: A DROP IN THE OCEAN
By
Jenni Ogden
Publication date: May 3, 2016
She
Writes Press
ISBN
(13) 978-1-63152-026-6; $16.95 U.S.; 5 ½ x 8
½; Paperback; 297 pages; Fiction/First Novel
About the author:
Jenni Ogden grew up in a country town in the South Island of New Zealand,
in a home bursting with books and music. Armed with NZ and Australian
university degrees in zoology and psychology, she took up a postdoctoral
fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked with H.M., the
most famous amnesiac in history, before returning to an academic position at
Auckland University. There, she immersed herself in clinical psychology and
neuropsychology, as well as traveling extensively and writing about her
patients’ moving stories in two books, Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to
Clinical Neuropsychology and Trouble In Mind: Stories from a Neuropsychologist’s
Casebook. Jenni has
had a love affair with the Great Barrier Reef since her twenties, when she
spent summers on a coral cay rather like Turtle Island, tagging sea turtles. Ogden and her husband now
live off-grid on a spectacular island off the coast of NZ, with winters spent
traveling and at their second home in tropical Far North Queensland. When she is not writing or traveling, Jenni
can be found on the beach—always with a book—or spending time with her family.
Please visit Jenni online
at the following places:
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