Paperback and eBook – Now Available
ASIN : B0CB831SHF
Publisher : Etruscan Press (June 11, 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8985882490
Dist. to the trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Dostoyevsky said, Beauty saves, and in Jacqueline Gay Walley’s The Waw, a woman leaves her New York life to follow an image she has seen of a small town of great beauty by the sea in England. She does not quite know why she does this and is frequently asked and gives different answers. There she encounters remarkable people of strength with whom she explores music, love, dignity, and the gifts of solitude coupled with the gifts of community. She finds herself in love and more open than ever before. All of this put together strips her down to her essence, where the beauty of the place and people are able to transform her to a better self.
In this wonderful new novel by Gay Walley, a woman makes her own mystery in an English village completely unlike her life in New York….Walley, also a playwright, is a master of erotic tension.
— Terese Svoboda, Roxy and Coco and The Long Swim
The Waw is a lovely meditation on the challenges and rewards of being true to oneself, no matter the difficulties of our contemporary world.
— Carol Moldaw, The Widening
Open this book and let it take you on a nomadic journey: to the oasis of language; to the wandering of stories, yours and others; to the loudness of silence, and the silencing of those with ideas we do not agree with; and to find what it is we are searching for.
— Jeff Talarigo, In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees
Reminiscent of Under the Tuscan Sun, this transportive novel is for those who have imagined their lives unspooling someplace new.
— Sari Fordham, Wait for God to Notice
Gay Walley lives in New York City. To learn more, visit her Instagram @GayWalley or her website, http://www.gaywalley.com/