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The Rock Pool wins an award!

My thanks to Pauline Barclay and the judges at Chill with a Book for the Premier Reader's Award for The Rock Pool.

 The Chill Awards are for independent writers and provide exposure, promotion and recognition to authors choosing to self-publish. It provides a useful network and community for writers, editors, cover designers and others associated with book preparation and production.

 The judges' comments on the book were generous and I am honoured and humbled.

 This is a beautiful book in many ways. It is beautiful written and takes the reader back to those days when, as growing up, we saw the future as bright, positive and every dream could be realised. Mr Reidy takes you on a journey from when life was about nothing more than enjoying yourself, finding new adventures to the reality of adulthood. The book’s pace is perfect. The characters are real enough to feel you are a guest at their lobster parties, their graduation balls, at their side during their travels. It is a book about growing up but, it is also about loyalty and friendship and how the expected turns out to be anything imaginable. I loved this book. Highly recommended.

A beautifully written gentle, coming of age story, with characters that the reader can invest in.

A wonderful story of young teenage years full of reminiscing of time gone by. Great characters, couldn’t put it down.


Thank you!

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