NEW TOBY PRESS AUTHOR INTERTWINES LOVE AND INTRIGUE AGAINST BACKDROP OF AN ANCIENT LAND

The House In Morocco is Author Rosalind Brackenbury's First Novel with Toby

"Brackenbury can also be quite dazzling when occasion demands. She has a proper sense of narrative…. I think that Brackenbury is just possibly a quite important writer."
-Robert Nye in The Guardian

In The House In Morocco (Toby Press, April 30, 2003), author Rosalind Brackenbury introduces her readers to Sarah Henderson. In an old stone house on the west coast of Morocco, Henderson, an American journalist, is welcomed by its inhabitants after she has split 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, the man with whom she falls passionately in love.

A mysterious "man who feeds seagulls" crosses Sarah's path, obliging her to reconsider her own actions along with those of her mother, who had come 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. They are also the realities Sarah has to understand before the keys are taken back from her, the locks changed, and the house is made inaccessible to her once again.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rosalind Brackenbury was born in London and grew up in the south of England. She has lived in Scotland, France, and currently resides in Key West, Florida with her American husband. Brackenbury has published ten novels and four collections of poetry, and she has worked variously as a parent, teacher, writer in residence, newspaper columnist, and deck hand on a schooner.