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A DROP IN THE OCEAN

Jenni Ogden

Evocative and thought-provoking, A DROP IN THE OCEAN is a story about second chances and hard lessons learned in the gentlest of ways.
On her 49th birthday, Anna Fergusson, Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert, arrives at an unwanted crossroads when the funding for her research lab is cut. With her confidence shattered and her future uncertain, on impulse she rents a cabin for a year on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. However Turtle Island, alive with sea birds and nesting Green turtles, is not the retreat she expected.

Here she finds love—for the eccentric islanders who become her family; for Tom, the laid-back turtle whisperer; and for the turtles whose ancient mothering instincts move her to tears. But Anna finds that even on her idyllic drop in the ocean there is pain, and as the months fly past her dream for a new life is threatened by a darkness that challenges everything she has come to believe about the power of love.

Jenni Ogden grew up in a country town in the South Island of New Zealand. Armed with NZ and Australian university degrees in zoology and psychology, she took up a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and she worked with H.M., the most famous amnesiac in history. Later she returned to an academic position at Auckland University, where she wrote about her patients’ moving stories in two books, FRACTURED MINDS and TROUBLE IN MIND.
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Published 2016-05-03 by She Writes Press

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Published 2016-05-03 by She Writes Press

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...a story to savor, discuss, and share.

Readers will enjoy this novel of second chances, not only at love but at life, reminiscent of Terry McMillan’s How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

In A Drop In The Ocean, protagonist Anna Fergusson learns that love is about letting go. Jenni Ogden takes us on a sweeping journey, rich with unique characters and places, moving backward and forward in time, to reach this poignant and heartfelt lesson.

Jenni Ogden is a natural storyteller who writes characters to care about.

GOLD WINNER, 2016 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS) for AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND – BEST REGIONAL FICTION

…endearing and enduring, everything a reading experience should be...

-GOLD WINNER, 2016 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS) for AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND – BEST REGIONAL FICTION -SILVER AWARD, 2016 READERS’ FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD for WOMEN’S FICTION

Here is a book to lose oneself in - and then share, enthusiastically, right away.

SILVER AWARD, 2016 READERS’ FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD for WOMEN’S FICTION