In an old stone house on the west coast of Morocco, Sarah Henderson, an American journalist, is welcomed by its inhabitants after she has split up with her war-correspondent lover. She meets Nick, the aristocratic English owner, Yann the French sailor, Aisha, the mother of Yann’s child, and Aziz, with whom she falls passionately in love. The mysterious “man who feeds seagulls” crosses Sarah’s path, obliging her to reconsider her own actions and those of her mother, who came to this town in 1936 and was sent home in disgrace. Memory, desire, the conflicting assumptions of different cultures; the meanings we ascribe to events; love and its many faces — these are some of the themes of the novel and the realities Sarah has to understand before the keys are taken back from her, the locks changed, and the house is made inaccessible once again.
About the Author
 ROSALIND BRACKENBURY was born in London, grew up in the south of England, has lived in Scotland and France and now lives in Key West, Florida, with her American husband. She has published ten novels and four collections of poetry. She has worked variously as a parent, teacher, writer in residence, newspaper columnist and deck hand on a schooner.
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The Critics Praise:
“Brackenbury can also be quite dazzlingly when occasion demands. She has a proper sense of narrative.... I think that Brackenbury is just possibly a quite important writer.”
THE GUARDIAN
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