Far Cry From The Turquoise Room

Kate Rigby

Apr 2011 · Kate Rigby

About this ebook

Leila is the eight-year-old daughter of Hassan Nassiri, a wealthy Iranian property owner, and younger sister to the adored Fayruz, her father's favourite daughter.

Then tragedy strikes in a holiday narrowboat accident having far-reaching consequences for the surviving family and so follows a tale of adventure, danger and romance - and further anguish for Leila's parents.

Far Cry From The Turquoise Room is a coming-of-age, riches-to-rags tale of loss, resilience, and self-discovery. It is also about the passage of childhood into puberty.

The family also appear in Seaview Terrace although both novels are self-contained.

Also available in paperback:

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Ratings and reviews

There's a poignant lilt to the voices of Hassan and Leila, the narrators of this riches-to-rags tale. The Turquoise Room refers to the room dedicated to Fayruz - the name itself meaning the same as the precious stone. When tragedy hits on a narrowboat holiday, nothing is the same for the surviving members. The favourite daughter, Fayruz, has gone and her father, Hassan, goes from black mood to high jinx, while his wife Samira has a breakdown. Finally, ten-year-old Leila begins a journey that is both risky and adventurous. The wilful, sulky primadonna becomes a plucky and sensitive girl on the brink of adolescence who finds love and friendship among her travelling companions. She is always one step ahead of her distraught family as she plays cat and mouse with them. Rigby has created exotic characters and a captivating storyline suitable for all ages that will delight and entertain.

About the author

  Kate Rigby was born near Liverpool and now lives in Devon.  She’s been writing for over thirty years, with a few small successes along the way.

 She realized her unhip credentials were mounting so she decided to write about it. Little Guide to Unhip was published in 2010.

 However, she’s not completely unhip. Her punk novel, Fall Of The Flamingo Circus was published by Allison & Busby (1990) and by Villard (American hardback 1990). Skrev Press published her novels Seaview Terrace (2003) Sucka!(2004) and Break Point(2006) and other shorter work has appeared in Skrev’s avant garde magazine Texts’ Bones including a version of her satirical novella Lost The Plot.

 Thalidomide Kid was published by Bewrite Books (2007).

 She has had other short stories published and shortlisted including Hard Workers and Headboards, first published in The Diva Book of Short Stories and as part of the Dancing In The Dark erotic anthology, Pfoxmoor Publishing (2011)

 She also received a Southern Arts bursary for her novel Where A Shadow Played (now re-Kindled as Did You Whisper Back?).

She is gradually in the process of re-Kindling her backlist of previously published as well as unpublished work including:

 Far Cry From The Turquoise Room

Suckers n Scallies (formerly Sucka!)

Down The Tubes

She Looks Pale

Tales By Kindlelight (a collection of short stories, many of them previously published or shortlisted in short story competitions)

Savage To Savvy – (ABNA Quarter-Finalist 2012)

More information can be found at her website:

 http://kjrbooks.yolasite.com/

 Or her occasional blog:

 http://bubbitybooks.blogspot.co.uk/