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Check out Julia Ibbotson's wonderfully evocative novel, Drumbeats #HistoricalFiction #HistoricalRomance #TheCoffeePotBookClub @JuliaIbbotson @cathiedunn


Drumbeats

The Drumbeats Trilogy, Book #1

by Julia Ibbotson


Publication Date: June 21st, 2023 (re-published)
Publisher: independently published
Pages: 230
Genre: 20th Century Historical Romance / Historical Mystery


It’s 1965, and 18 year old Jess escapes her stifling English home for a gap year in Ghana, West Africa. But it’s a time of political turbulence across the region. Fighting to keep her young love who waits back in England, she’s thrown into the physical and emotional dangers of civil war, tragedy and the conflict of a disturbing new relationship. And why do the drumbeats haunt her dreams?


This is a rite of passage story which takes the reader hand in hand with Jess on her journey towards the complexities and mysteries of a disconcerting adult world.


This is the first novel in the acclaimed Drumbeats trilogy: DrumbeatsWalking in the RainFinding Jess.


For fans of Barbara Erskine, Pamela Hartshorn, Christina Courtenay, Susanna Kearsley.





This title is available to read on #KindleUnlimited.


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Julia Ibbotson


Award-winning author Julia Ibbotson herself spent an exciting time in Ghana, West Africa, teaching and nursing (like Jess in her books), and always vowed to write about the country and its past. And so, the Drumbeats Trilogy was born. 

She’s also fascinated by history, especially by the medieval world, and concepts of time travel, and has written haunting time-slips of romance and mystery partly set in the Anglo-Saxon period. 

Julia studied English at Keele University, England, specialising in medieval language, literature and history, and has a PhD in linguistics. She wrote her first novel at age 10, but became a school teacher, then university lecturer and researcher. Her love of writing never left her and to date she’s written 9 books, with a 10th on the way. 

She’s a member of the Romantic Novelists Association, Society of Authors and the Historical Novel Society.

Connect with Julia:

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2 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for featuring my book, Drumbeats, here today, Cathie! Much appreciated - and also for all your work on my book tour this week. It's been wonderful! All the best. Julia

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    1. You're very welcome, Julia. It's been a real pleasure.

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