A Drop in the Ocean

GOLD: NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD FICTION LARGE PUBLISHER (2016)GOLD: SARTON WOMENS BOOK AWARD CONTEMPORARY FICTION (2016) GOLD: INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS) BEST FICTION AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND (2016)SILVER: READERS FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WOMENS FICTION 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 Australias 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. Evocative and thought-provoking A Drop in the Ocean is a story about second chances and hard lessons learned in the gentlest of ways.