Blaze Island a sizzling ecological thriller set in Newfoundland
Quote from Steve on October 3, 2020, 9:02 amThe simple wooden house stands isolated in a windswept cove on Newfoundland’s largest offshore island. And its influence on Catherine Bush’s new novel has been profound.
“As soon as I stepped inside it, I said that my characters would have to live here,” Bush says. “I could walk the shore paths the way Miranda would. I really felt this world was coming up through my feet, and I learned to listen to the wind in a way I never had before.”
The wind is a major character in the novel that emerged — Blaze Island. Miranda is another. She’s the daughter of a renowned climate scientist whose reputation has been shredded by a hostile establishment determined to discredit his warnings of environmental catastrophe. The two end up in exile on a tiny island in the North Atlantic, setting the stage for an elegantly crafted story that also proves to be a sizzling ecological thriller. [Read more]
The simple wooden house stands isolated in a windswept cove on Newfoundland’s largest offshore island. And its influence on Catherine Bush’s new novel has been profound.
“As soon as I stepped inside it, I said that my characters would have to live here,” Bush says. “I could walk the shore paths the way Miranda would. I really felt this world was coming up through my feet, and I learned to listen to the wind in a way I never had before.”
The wind is a major character in the novel that emerged — Blaze Island. Miranda is another. She’s the daughter of a renowned climate scientist whose reputation has been shredded by a hostile establishment determined to discredit his warnings of environmental catastrophe. The two end up in exile on a tiny island in the North Atlantic, setting the stage for an elegantly crafted story that also proves to be a sizzling ecological thriller. [Read more]