My Review: I enjoyed getting to know the Main Character Eleanor who meets Alec Jenkins in Wales and helps him polish off a burnt roast chicken. There are mentions of the war and the effects its left behind. It’s a very chatty book and we meet some intersting people as well as Charlie, Alec’s brother. It’s a multi cultural read that travels far and wide including places like Rome, Paris, Great Zimbabwe, India etc. Eleanor is a very talented artist and her works get published. She is a fun but lonely character. It’s an interesting read that spans over a number of different years starting in the 70s. I enjoyed the historical aspects and different dynamics. An easy to follow read.

A Distant Voice in the Darkness

“A distant voice in the darkness… So on the ocean of life we pass” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A chance meeting at university leads to a relationship that spans marriages, the world and the decades in this sweeping and fulfilling novel from acclaimed author Leela Dutt, a story that reaches from the British countryside, through the glamour of Rome and the exhilaration of India to the turbulence of the South African invasion of Lesotho. Through it all, Eleanor Larsen-Bruun pursues a successful career and yet never loses her love for the man she met so many years before. At the peak of her success, fate seems to offer the chance to begin again something that was started so many years before…

Purchase Links

UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BCH7LCDR

US – https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BCH7LCDR

Author Bio – Leela Dutt is an outsider, an only child brought up in Golders Green by an Indian father and a Danish mother. She has travelled all her life since the day her mother had to tuck the toddler under her arm while she struggled up a steep metal ladder on the side of a warship in order to be taken to Denmark.

Leela lives in Cardiff. After history at Oxford she was briefly a teacher, a shop assistant and a journalist. She then took a degree in computing, and set up and ran a database about housing research for Cardiff University, before joining the Big Issue Cymru as a proof-reader and reviewer.

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