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    The Water Children

    By Anne Berry

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    ‘Anne Berry is a wonderful writer… from page one, the plotting is heart-in-the-mouth stuff. What more could you ask?’ Daily Mail

    ‘Simply heartbreaking… One of the best novels I have read all year’ Keith Donohue, New York Times bestselling author

    Winner of Amazon’s ‘Rising Stars’ competition

    In the suffocating heat of an historic London heat wave, four young people converge in a tangled web of sexual charm and dangerous passion.

    Each of their lives has been irrevocably changed by water: the cruel power of the sea, the healing pull of the river, the slow breaking of thin ice.

    As four lives collide in this tale of betrayal, revenge and redemption, who will succumb this time?

    Will the power of love finally bring the water children together, or tear them apart?

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    From the author of The Hungry Ghosts:

    ‘As heart-rending as it is innovative, The Hungry Ghosts heralds Berry as an original new voice in fiction’ Time Out

    ‘This is a novel as breezy as the best summer reads, yet secrets and deadly jealousy seethe at its core…engrossing’ Daily Mail

    ‘A stunning debut…Epic in scope and voice…so skilfully crafted, and the writing so elegant, it’s hard to believe it is a first novel’ Globe and Mail

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateApr 28, 2011
    ISBN9780007352067
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    The Water Children
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    Anne Berry

    Anne Berry was born in London in 1956, then spent much of her infancy in Aden, before moving on to Hong Kong at the age of six, where she was educated. She worked for a short period as a journalist for the South China Morning Post, before returning to Britain. After completing a three-year acting course, she embarked on a career in theatre, playing everything from pantomime to Shakespeare. She now lives in Surrey with her husband and four children. ‘The Hungry Ghosts’ is her first novel.

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    • 3/5
      Sort of middling story about sad British people who have a sad connection to a river or the ocean or a pond.
    • 4/5
       Initially I struggled with this book as I felt that the story setting up process was taking far too long and it took me until over half way to really engage with the characters. With the 4 main characters [Catherine, Owen, Sean and Naomi] we first discover their individual stories and how interactions with water have affected their lives but it is in the second half as the 4 adults become entangled that I found myself drawn into their lives. The book twists and turns with some 'Fatal Attraction' elements as betrayal and hurts surface but for me it is in the character of Owen that we find the most rounded and developed characterisation. Some of the desciptive passages early on are clunky and it is disjointed in places, for me the Italian episode doesn't add greatly to the story, but ultimately the book did grab me and I felt moved to tears by the ending so probably 3.5 stars would have been the more accurate rating.
    • 5/5
      This is a very accomplished book by the writer of the prize winning author Anne Berry who wrote "The Hungry Ghosts".The story revolves around 3 main characters...all linked by water. Catherine almost drowned whilst playing on an iced over lake with her cousin. Sean is mesmerised by the river Shannon in his native Ireland. Owen is deeply damaged by the death of his younger little sister who drowns in the sea whilst he is supposed to be caring for her when he is only a child himself. Add to the mix, a mesmerising woman called Naomi, a disturbed individual who is addicted to the sea's power. Each of our characters encounter Naomi, and her alter ego Mara, and it changes their lives forever.The novel is mainly set in London during the very hot summer of 1976. So vivid is the writing that the heat seems to emanate from the pages. Owens' story is by far the strongest and most effective for me. His sadness, guilt and longing to be loved by his bitter mother are heart breaking. His fear of water is palpable."The Water Children" is deeply moving and demonstrates how our past can have such a powerful effect on our present and future lives. I can certainly recommend it and it would make a great book club read with it's multi faceted characterization.This book was made available to me, prior to publictaion, for an honest review.