GOLD: NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD, FICTION, LARGE PUBLISHER (2016)GOLD: SARTON WOMEN’S BOOK AWARD, CONTEMPORARY FICTION (2016)GOLD: INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS), BEST FICTION, AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND (2016)SILVER: READERS’ FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD, WOMEN’S FICTION
On her 49th birthday, Anna Fergusson, Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert, arrives at an unwanted crossroads … introvert, arrives at an unwanted crossroads when the funding for her research lab is cut. With her confidence shattered and her future uncertain, on impulse she rents a cabin for a year on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. However Turtle Island, alive with sea birds and nesting Green turtles, is not the retreat she expected. Here she finds love—for the eccentric islanders who become her family; for Tom, the laid-back turtle whisperer; and for the turtles whose ancient mothering instincts move her to tears. But Anna finds that even on her idyllic drop in the ocean there is pain, and as the months fly past her dream for a new life is threatened by a darkness that challenges everything she has come to believe about the power of love.
Evocative and thought-provoking, A Drop in the Ocean is a story about second chances and hard lessons learned in the gentlest of ways.more
This book will stay with me for a long time. One of the most moving romances I’ve read, it’s an honest, raw look at love and life. As a bonus, it’s set on a small island off the Great Barrier Reef, and the author made me feel like I was there. Excellent.
Loved, loved this story!
Love the interesting places she visited – lots of facts!
I enjoyed this book. Great summer read!
This was a good read. The characters and topics they dealt with were real and timely. There were highs and lows as in all lives and how each character brought their pasts to bare on their decisions made the book interesting.
I ‘m in love with this book. I was a SCUBA diver and the author shares with you the sea life of the Pacific ocean. I’ve come to Know and love both Britain and Australia through this awesome book. Plus there are the islands were turtles lay their wee ones. Their lives are told in details and how the are born and then return to the sea. The characters in the book are people you will want to know about in detail. Each one brings to you an opportunity to see People filled with love and caring.
Anna is a researcher in the field of Huntington’s Disease. When her funding is cut, she has nowhere to go. On a whim, she accepts a position on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia collecting money for a campground. While there, she gets involved with the work of a researcher working with sea turtles who come ashore to lay their eggs. Anna falls in love with the island people. When it comes time to leave, will she go?
Jenni Ogden’s A Drop in the Ocean is a delicious novel about second chances, passion-driven work, the inspiration of the natural world, and our very human capacity to make meaning out of even our worst mistakes and misconceptions. In Anna Ferguson, the reader finds a research scientist whose prestigious academic career is upended, forcing her at 50, to redefine every aspect of her life. The laboratory for this beautifully told journey is a remote island on the great barrier reef off Australia, where the joys and sorrows of the inhabitants are set in high relief against the exquisitely rendered setting. There are no easy answers in Anna’s path forward, but as she allows love and compassion to open her world, Ogden gifts the reader with a fascinating and satisfying ring side seat to the poignant outcome.
it is very interesting
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Written in a memoir style, this novel of a middle-aged academically competent women searching for depth in a mundane life finds what she’s looking for on a tropical island off the coast of Australia. The true-to-life tale is informative, riveting and beautiful. Don’t miss it. Bonnie Smith, Montana USA writer
Excellent book. The story stayed in my mind after i finished it. Sorry to reach the end.
Beautiful book describing the environment as well as a unique love story between a woman trying to find herself and a man with a genetic autoimmune disease. i heartily recommend this book.
Fantastic combination of intelligence and heart.
I am currently reading but am finding this book to be moving awfully slow.
Too one dimensional. Unlikely heroine. Reads like someone’s fantasy dream.
Turtles, Australia, Island life