Looking back, I wonder
if I had an inkling that my life was about to go from ordinary to
extraordinary.
When sixteen-year-old Lillie Hart meets the gorgeous and
mysterious Tom Windsor-Smith for the first time, it’s like fireworks — for her,
anyway. Tom looks as if he would be more interested in watching paint dry; as
if he is bored by her and by her small Nebraskan town in general.
But as Lillie begins to break down the walls of his seemingly
impenetrable exterior, she starts to suspect that he holds the answers to her
reoccurring nightmares and to the impossible memories which keep bubbling to
the surface of her mind — memories of the two of them, together and in love.
When she at last learns the truth about their connection,
Lillie discovers that Tom has been hiding an earth-shattering secret; a secret
that is bigger — and much more terrifying and beautiful — than the both of
them. She also discovers that once you finally understand that the world is
round, there is no way to make it flat again.
An epic and deeply original sci-fi romance, taking inspiration
from Albert Einstein’s theories and the world-bending wonder of true love
itself.
Guest Post: Inspiration
Is All Around
It struck me the other day
that all four of my books are set in the country, not the city. I think it is a
result of my surroundings growing up.
I was born in a city (see
photographic evidence of my brothers and I on Sydney Harbour), but grew up
surrounded by nature, both on the coast and in regional Australia.
I spent a lot of my
childhood on the coast and surfed through my teen years (I now live about two
hours from the coast, so my surfboard is gathering dust!).
Most of my childhood was
spent inland though in small towns or farming communities.
You only have to look at
the poetry I wrote as a child to see the effect this had on me.
For example:
The
Willow Tree
The
willow tree stands by the river;
Where the
bluebells and buttercups quiver.
They're
amazed by the sight;
Of the
fairies delight;
When the
sparrows fly hither and thither.
The Raven
The raven
sits in a tall, tall tree;
With its
black head under its wing.
Yes,
there it sits and there it stays;
Until
once again comes spring.
The illustrations in my first
book – a picture book called A Lot of Things show a farm with horses and
cockatoos (very Australian). And my Frank Frankie novels are set in a small
town, which Frankie referred to as being 'In the Sticks'.
When the World was Flat (and we were in love) is also set in a small town – a fictional town in Nebraska called
Green Grove. A description of the town is as follows:
We all hated Green Grove. For three quarters of the year it was flat and brown, for the other
quarter it was waist deep in snow, which made its name as misleading as the
sign that declared it the gateway to the renowned wine region, the Open Valley.
We were more like a backdoor, or even a cat flap, to the rolling vineyards
which grew, out of place, next to our desert-like town. Even the flowers in Main
Street had died two months after they were planted…
I think my stories lend
themselves to being told in a country town, where gossip runs rampant and
everyone knows everyone else. I describe this in When the World was Flat (and we were in love):
Green Grove, Nebraska, has a population of four
thousand, six hundred and something, which results in about two degrees of
separation between the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker.
When I wrote about Green
Grove, I pictured a town I grew up in here in Australia called Kurri Kurri,
which is next to the world-famous wine region, The Hunter Valley.
I now live in a city - the
capital of Australia in fact. But I am not sure my stories will become citified
anytime soon given it is known as the Bush Capital. There are kangaroos on almost
every corner!
This was such a great and wonderful book to read!
"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way
influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."
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