Siobhan Murphy – The Point Where The Ocean Ends

I’m happy to be able to post my review for The Point Where The Ocean Ends by Siobhan Murphy. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Siobhan Murphy for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest thoughts.

 A lifetime of searching
A restless, nomadic journey
And a secret kept buried for years

As winter turns to spring on the North Cornish coast, Kerensa O’Connell receives an unexpected message relating to a passionate relationship deep in her past. A message that stirs up memories threatening to derail her comfortable life and her marriage.

While the world is forced to press the pause button, Kerensa has no choice but to slow down and confront the demons that have plagued her throughout her life. Battling both mental and physical health issues, she must decide once and for all what she is looking for and whom she wants by her side.

Simultaneously unfolding over a few months and several decades, the story moves from the windswept plains of East Africa to the stunning islands of the Great Barrier Reef, the tranquil mountains of the Himalayas, and the bustling cities of Europe. Kerensa confronts happiness and heartbreak through the lens of her camera and her connection to the people she loves. Piecing together her memories of love, loss, and adventure, she starts to make sense of the choices she has made and question the internal chaos that has always defined her.

A tale of colliding life paths, fate and chance.
A journey of discovery and coming to terms with the truth of the past.

An unforgettable love story with the mystery of an ambiguous figure at its heart and a reminder that letting go of the past can take a lifetime.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book when I began reading. What I found was a beautifully written story by an author I haven’t heard of before.

We follow Kerensa in the form of diary entries. She is a middle-aged woman who is confused in her direction within her life. I felt like I was with her travelling and exploring the world. I felt every emotion she was experiencing. Siobhan Murphy transcribes the emotions onto paper so skillfully that it does make this a novel I appreciated in many ways.

The fact that Kerensa was so real and relatable meant I connected so well with her and how she experiences her life. The descriptions of her travels were so vivid. I loved Kenya in particular, maybe because I know my grandad travelled and fought over there in the Second World War.

Themes of love, loss, adventure, and friendship are so cleverly interwoven to create a story that left me thinking long after I had put this book down. I am so glad I chose to read this novel.

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Author Bio 

Siobhan Murphy is a contemporary women’s fiction author based in the UK. She spent many years drifting around the world in search of adventure and trying to figure out what to do with her life. She still isn’t sure if she’s found the answer, but having rattled on about writing books for years, she finally did something about it. At present, writing feels like the perfect job, and is providing her with an enormous amount of pleasure. Along the way she has worked in places as diverse as the High Commission in Nairobi; a market stall selling cheese in the UK and an 80-foot racing yacht in Australia. She’s been a secondary school English teacher and a Barista with no discernible talent for making coffee. She’s been a bossy PA and an uninspired private equity fund administrator. Probably her favourite job ever was as a bookseller for Waterstones, where she loved recommending books to customers and applying those 3 for 2 stickers that are hard to remove. For the last 17 years she’s worked as a professional photographer, taking portraits of human beings, often the really, really small ones. She suffers from a condition called Pareidolia, which causes her to see faces in everyday objects. Her hobbies are eating sweets, talking nonsense and walking into rooms wondering why she is there. She constantly overthinks everything and will no doubt keep deleting and re-writing this bio for the foreseeable future. Her first novel was sponsored by Earl Grey Tea and many, many, many glasses of wine.

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