The Seagull's Laughter by Holly Bidgood - Cover Reveal
Blurb
Born
in 1973 to a Greenlandic mother and an English-Explorer father, Malik
has always been something of a misfit. He has one black eye and one
blue. As a child his mother’s people refused to touch him and now his
own baby daughter’s family feel the same way.
On
his own now, Malik’s only companion is a guiding spirit no-one else can
see, but one day a white man with a nose like a beak and a shadow like a
seagull appears on his doorstep and invites him to England.
Martha
has had enough of living with domestic abuse. She compares bruises with
her friend Neil, who regularly suffers homophobic attacks. With
Martha’s baby, they go on the run to Shetland, where Martha has happy
childhood memories of summers spent with her aunt.
On
their way up north in a camper van, they come across a dejected Malik,
alone again after a brief reconciliation with his father’s family.
They
arrive safely together in the Shetland Isles, but Malik still needs
answers to the identity of the beak-nosed man who casts a shadow over
his life, and must now embark on a further journey of his own.
The Seagull’s Laughter is an immersive read, intertwined with nature and the magic of Greenlandic folk tales.
About the Author
Holly grew up in Derbyshire but has always been drawn to the sea. She
has written from a young age. Her love affair with island landscapes was kick-started
on a brief visit to the Faroe Islands at the age of eighteen, en route to
Iceland. She was immediately captivated by the landscape, weather, and way of
life and it was here that she conceived the idea for her first novel, The Eagle and The Oystercatcher.
Holly studied Icelandic, Norwegian and Old Norse at University College
London. She also studied as an exchange student at The University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) and spent a memorable
summer working in a museum in South Greenland.
She decided to start a family young, and now has three small children.
Holly helps run Life & Loom, a social and therapeutic weaving studio
in Hull. She likes to escape from
the busyness of her life by working on her novels and knitting Icelandic wool
jumpers.
The Seagull’s
Laughter will be published in November 2019.
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