The Stranding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

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The Stranding by Kate Sawyer | Waterstones

A delightful and poignant story of courage, friendship and love on the Home Front at the height of World War II, and every bit as funny, heartwarming, and touching as Dear Mrs Bird, Yours Cheerfully is a celebration of friendship, a tribute to the strength of women and the importance of lifting each other up, even in the most challenging times.

But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school, and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in her class, she realizes she's found her gift at last. Dreaming big, they come up with a revolutionary idea: to build a social networking app that could bring meaning to millions of lives. Hopeless crushes, emergency tampons, messy sex stories, work triumphs, those days where you can't stop crying in the loos, those days where you can't stop dancing on the bar.

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In the flashbacks, Ruth ignores the news of the growing potential conflagration, so that its details are never really clear except for readers to understand that the conflict ends up killing nearly everyone on the planet and strands Ruth on her beach. Whereas The Road supplies no “before” (we have only the man, the boy, and the hell through which they walk), The Stranding provides a privileged view into an earlier life, which helps the reader to appreciate the journey Ruth makes from being dependent (upon her parents, her friends, her partner) to learning how to become independent, to becoming dependable for her children. I remember sitting on the bus to the tube before dawn, on the way to work, typing into my phone what would later become what is central to The Stranding: a family living inside the bones of a whale following an apocalyptic event. In their different ways, both Moss and Ellmann are addressing the solipsism or self-centredness of consciousness, which got us into this problem in the first place, and is both formed and enacted through the stories we tell about ourselves. The vivid narrative perhaps draws on Sawyer’s previous experience as an actor and producer: her believable scenarios are conveyed in a concise, but powerful and graphic manner.Despite all the effort and the smiles, in the mirror she sees a woman hollowed out from putting everyone else first, tolerating her in-laws' intolerance, and wondering if she has a right to complain when she's living the life that she has created for herself. For decades Atwood’s novels have been sounding the alarm about things that may not yet be visible, though they are already coming to pass. I couldn’t put it down and the story of hope in a hopeless place is something we could all do with during these strange times. Fiercely independent Judith thinks more of horses than men, but that doesn't stop her looking for love online. While this is happening, and in its aftermath, the narrative alternates with the tale Ruth’s life before – living hard in London having an affair with a married man which turns into a mildly abusive relationship – as a counterpoint to the life she ends up living, eventually telling the full story of how she ended up on that beach in the first place.