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Tricia Walker
Hi there, I'm a writer and my first book, "Benedict's Brother" unexpectedly became the biggest selling launch of any unknown author in Borders bookstores this year and has been selected Top 3 Book of the Year in UK Publishing News, alongside Ian MacEwan's "On Chesil Beach" and Costa Book Award winner, "What Was Lost", by Catherine O'Flynn. You can read the blog version for free on the blog - click here.
I talk to groups of readers regularly to discuss the book, a journey which
takes me all across the UK, recently to Europe and with invitations to visit the US. Benedict's Brother is a contemporary
story of love, death and Buddhism set at the Bridge On The River Kwai. For some it is a story of an intense process of transformation,
for others a moving journey across time and Thailand. Enjoy. I'm currently completing my second book and working
on the third . . . as well as following my path. Love to you all.
"Benedict's Brother"
The style of Tracey Walker's "Benedict's
Brother" flows no doubt like the waters of the River Kwai, both serenely and disconcertingly. What appears
initially to be a travelogue from York through Thailand becomes a journey of the mind in the face of life's adaptation
to the realities of destructive death. Towards the end you realise that the book is also carefully plotted.
This is a calm book about a painful transformation, told in elegant and intriguing prose. The pages just turn themselves somehow. It is not the narrative that drives you on, but the river of the words, and our engagement with Benedict and her quest. (TR). |
