Ebook {Epub PDF} The Ash the Well and the Bluebell by Sandra Arnold

ISBN , pp. “The Ash, The Well and the Bluebell” is a story about moving away from your roots to find yourself and then returning to the stifling village you grew up in to try and make sense of why you had to leave. The village is Eshwell Bridge in the UK, named after the ancient ash tree that grows by the well owned in by the local herbalist and midwife rumoured to be a www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.  · In her third novel The ash, the well and the bluebell, Canterbury writer Sandra Arnold tells a story that spans three centuries. Tags: www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins.  · Fiction and reality: Sandra Arnold on writing The Ash, the Well and the Bluebell. Published . After the second major earthquake in Christchurch in , I wrote a short story to capture some of the horror through two fictional characters who were caught up in it ‒ Lily and her daughter Charlie. Charlie dies in the earthquake and Lily returns to her childhood village, Eshwell .

edit data. Sandra Arnold lives in New Zealand. She has a MLitt (High Distinction) and PhD in Creative Writing from Central Queensland University, Australia and is the author of a book on parental bereavement, Sing no Sad Songs and two novels, Tomorrow's Empire and A Distraction of Opposites. Her first flash fiction collection Soul Etchings. Sandra Arnold. Sandra Arnold lives in New Zealand. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Central Queensland University, Australia and is the author of five books. Her most recent are a novel, The Ash, the Well and the Bluebell (Mākaro Press, NZ, ) and a flash fiction collection, Soul Etchings (Retreat West Books, UK, ). In her third novel The ash, the well and the bluebell, Canterbury writer Sandra Arnold tells a story that spans three centuries.

ISBN , pp. “The Ash, The Well and the Bluebell” is a story about moving away from your roots to find yourself and then returning to the stifling village you grew up in to try and make sense of why you had to leave. The village is Eshwell Bridge in the UK, named after the ancient ash tree that grows by the well owned in by the local herbalist and midwife rumoured to be a witch. Fiction and reality: Sandra Arnold on writing The Ash, the Well and the Bluebell. Published . After the second major earthquake in Christchurch in , I wrote a short story to capture some of the horror through two fictional characters who were caught up in it ‒ Lily and her daughter Charlie. Charlie dies in the earthquake and Lily returns to her childhood village, Eshwell Bridge, in England, with her daughter’s ashes. The Ash, the Well and the Bluebell by Sandra Arnold. Lily’s world comes crashing to the ground when her adult daughter Charlie is killed in the Christchurch earthquake. All of a sudden the life she had built for herself in New Zealand is upended. A year later, she finds herself back in Eshwell Bridge, the tiny English town where she grew up in the s.