Book Tour: Day 8
Another exciting day on tour with The Starling Dance.
My first stop was at The Book Magnet where I received the most fabulous review from Michelle. As a debut novelist, I find my self-confidence can be quite low. You can never be sure that people will ‘get’ what you have written and will enjoy your book as much as you hope they will. So it was so motivating to see my book described like this:
Beautifully written, incredibly entertaining and completely mesmerising. The Starling Dance is a stunning first novel that makes me very excited to see what Lucy Elena writes next.
You can read the full review here.
As part of my second stop of the day, bookwormwhitlock86 featured an extract from my book (part 1 of Chapter 31 – If a tree dates in the jungle, does it make a sound?).
You can read the extract here.
In this scene, while listening to music, my main female character, Laure, remembers when she reached her lowest point, a year ago, while on sick leave from work due to burnout. That day, she was surrounded by her friends but inside she felt very lonely – a failure in her career and her love life. It was this feeling that pushed her to leave Paris and move to Italy for a fresh start. Now in her room in Rome, Laure feels the culmination of all the pressures she has heaped upon herself over the years to conform to what society expects of her and to please her parents, rather than trusting her own instincts. Her chance meeting that day with Viviano, the free-spirited street artist, opens her eyes to this self-imposed weight pulling her down. When Laure starts to draw the vines on her body, symbolically, it signals the beginning of a transformation in her life – to let go of what other people think of her and to start to be more free and more rebellious. To connect with nature and with herself.
You can find out what happens next in The Starling Dance.
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