Talking Location With … author Tom Benjamin: BOLOGNA and environs
GIVEAWAY: 3 copies of The House on Rockaway Beach – QUEENS, NYC
4th September 2022
We are delighted to offer our readers the chance to win 1 of 3 copies of The House on Rockaway Beach by Emma Burstall, set on Rockaway Beach, QUEEENS, NYC.
A gripping tale of family secrets, sibling rivalry and summer romance, set against the backdrop of New York’s sizzling urban beach.
Sisters Sophie and Celia haven’t been on speaking terms for years. So it’s a huge shock when they discover their grandmother has left them her quirky old house on Rockaway Beach, New York.
Just a stone’s throw from the bright lights of Manhattan, they spent many idyllic summers there as children, swimming in the Atlantic ocean, playing in the sand and watching day trippers come and go. Then suddenly, the visits stopped. Sophie knows her mother and grandmother fell out, but has never found out why.
Together, the sisters return to Rockaway, and can’t agree on anything. Sophie wants to keep the house, Celia’s determined to sell. It seems they’ll never see eye to eye, until Sophie makes a shattering discovery that forces her to question everything…
Why do she and Celia have such different memories of their grandmother? What caused the rift with their mother? Can Sophie trust the handsome stranger who seems to take such an interest in her? And who is the mysterious old woman watching them from afar?
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- Which beach area around the world would you most like to visit? Might it be Acapulco? Or the the beach off Koh Phi Phi that featured in Alex Garland’s novel The Beach? Perhaps Brighton Beach or Goa? Leave your thoughts in the COMMENTS BELOW by Saturday, 17 September 2022. The first three names chosen at random will be sent a copy each of the novel. UK ONLY.
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WINNERS
Claire Hamilton
ryanfaers
Fitwell
I’d love to go to Manly beach in Australia
The Whitsunday Islands
If I won the lottery, I would love to visit Maya Bay, Thailand, where The Beach was filmed. Sadly, I read that it was over visited. Hence, a trip to the Golden Sands of Blackpool is more realistic (as maybe as nice).
Clearwater Beach in Florida was amazing so would love to go back there.
Believe it or not, Porthminster beach in Cornwall
I’d like to visit Laniakea Beach.
Any of the beaches in hawaii
Whispering sands wales
I would like to visit Kalamaki beach when the turtles are around
Would love to visit Bondi beach in Australia to visit my daughter.
The beaches in Scotland. Not the warmest or the biggest but still amazing.
Seahorse beach turkey
I’d love to revisit the beautiful Chesil Beach in Dorset – stunning.
Any of the beaches on the West coast of Ireland, beautiful
Whitehaven Beach in Queensland, Australia, has to be one of the most attractive beaches in the world.
Trunk Bay – a National Park beach on St. John in the United States Virgin Islands.
Tapuaetai (One Foot Island) which is a small islet in the Aitutaki atoll of the Cook Islands, Stunning.
I would like to visit Bondai Beach – well, why not?
I would love to visit Bondai Beach – well, why not?
I visited Clearwater beach in Florida and would love to visit again as it was beautiful
I’d love to go back to the beach in bora bora
Always fancied visiting the beaches in Hawaii
I would love to revisit Miami Beach. I stopped there for a hour whilst on a trip with my dad who is sadly no longer here and I would love to go again to remember those amazing times
Herm island
My daughter got married on a beach in The Bahamas 22 years ago. It was just her and her man. She didn’t want a big wedding like the one she had previously planned with her ex. I love the beaches in this country but have always hankered after seeing where she was wed.
I’ve always fancied Goa for the ultimate beach experience.
Hung Shing Yeh Beach on Lamma Island
Bondi beach to watch the surfers
Hawaii
The Gold Coast, Australia
I would love to visit the beaches in California
Ke’e Beach in Hawaii looks stunning. I’d love to visit.
I love Boscombe beach near Bournemouth, just as sandy only much quieter
Benidorm. You get better weather, and no stones.
I live just by Brighton beach 🙂
i would love to go to bora bora
Kauapea Beach in Hawaii
The Caribbean
the beach would be santa eulalia
Would love to visit Bondi Beach
St. Andrews West Sands, full of drama and beauty
Maui – Diamond Head
The Scottish Hoghlands, beaches look beautiful
I would like to go back to Australia to St Philips Island and see the penguins on the shore again
St. Pete Beach in Florida is amazing – i’d love to go back there one day
I’d love to visit the coast around Australia
I would love to visit pig beach in Barbados!
Any beach in Cornwall as I’ve not visited- yet!
I would like to visit Paighton Beach,its a memory from my childhood.
I love Scottish beaches, the Isle of Skye & Isle of Bute have some gorgeous unspoilt beaches
have been to a beautiful beach in barbados – would love to return
Whitburn would be my choice 🙂
I’d love to go to the Maldives xx
Scottish Isles have some of the most wonderful remote beaches in the world. amazing to watch the whales, seals and sea otters. Isle of Harris is my favourite.
Baga Beach, Goa
Bondi Beach would be my choice of beach
Bournemouth beach. A lovely expanse of sand
I would like to revisit the beach at Seahouses in Northumberland I used to visit as a child – as I recall there are lots of fascinating rockpools as well as lots of lovely sand. I liked being able to look out to the Farne Islands and see bobbing heads if seals in the sea – I hope it hasn’t changed
The beaches in the Riviera Maya will always be my favourite
I’d love to visit Bondi Beach.
Gold Coast.
Hot water beach in New Zealand.
yes please
Champagne Beach Beach in Vanuatu
It’s so beautiful
I’d love to go to Maldives 🙂
Selsey Beach – used to go here as kids, haven’t been back for years but remember it always being empty and having the beach to ourselves.
Diani Beach, Kenya is white, wide, with gentle waves. I would love to go there again!
Cant beat the Maldives for heavenly beaches
Cayman Islands, lots of great beaches, stayed at one on Grand Cayman at Ritz Carlton Hotel, Heaven on Earth. Also stayed at another hotel on a great beach on Little Cayman Island. They were a prize in a Competition.
The best beach I’ve ever been to is in Nairn in Scotland, beautiful clean golden sand that goes on for what feels like miles.
The beaches of Pembrokeshire in South Wales, just stunning
St Ives Cornwall
No planes,passport or queuing
Stay in Britain lovely!
I would love to go to the Le Morne beach Mauritius
Horseid Beach, Norway – I know it`s not the normal hot choice but so beautiful and wild
Miami Beach
I would love to visit a beach in the Seychelles, it looks so stunning and peaceful
Four Mile Beach in Port Douglas, it’s stunning!
having had a week there before, I’d love to return to Goa as there’s so much more to be explored there
Manly Beach in NSW Australia. My uncle who lived there said it was so much better in every way than the super hyped Bondi Beach. I would love to find out for myself
I’d love to visit Bondi Beach
Great holiday read
will be visiting my favourite beach this time next week . . . Prasonisi in Rhodes where the Aegean meets the Mediterranean
Would love to read this book
Any of the sandy beaches in Mauritius. It’s such a stunning island!
I would love to visit the Anse Source d’Argent, La Digue in the Seychelles.
I’d love to go to the Caribbean to visit the beaches there
My favourite beach is at Playa del Carmen Lanzarote
I would love to visit Fraser Island (K’gari) which is off the coast of Queensland, Australia
Bondi Beach
After just visiting Ile aux Cerfs in Mauritus I will struggle to go to a beach that beats it but Flamenco Beach in Puerto Rico looks like paradise
Miami Beach
Bali for me – always sounds so exotic and chilled
I love the beach in Mauritius, warm sea, colourful fish – beautiful.
Bobdi Beach
Any one of the beautiful beaches on the remote Scottish Islands would be lovely.
So many beaches! I will plump for the beaches in Northland, New Zealand, notably 90-mile beach.
It is actually somewhat shorter than 90 miles but it is very long, very beautiful and used for sports events – and sometimes driving – as well as swimming and sunbathing.
Koh Phi Phi beach as it looks like pure paradise and would be unreal to actually get to go there and see it.
The beach from The Beach would be fantastic but I’m thinking they’ve closed it to visitors, so The Gold Coast as I’ve yet to go anywhere in the southern hemisphere.
St Ouens Jersey
Repulse Bay , on the south side of Hong Kong Island . Don’t be fooled by the name, there is nothing repulsive about this beach . I have such fond memories of this beach . . .
I’d love to visit Nissi Beach in Cyprus, it sounds idyllic.
At the moment I would love to be on Voutoumi beach on AntiPaxos
I loved Mao’s Last Dancer, set in communist China, absolutely fascinating insight into a past culture.
Morecambe Bay not travel beautiful
Coral Bay beach Paphos holds wonderful holiday memories of carefree relaxing days.
Perranporth Beach and along that Coastline in Cornwall UK. Just Beautiful!
Perranporth Beach and along that coastline in Cornwall UK
I have been to Thailand and would love to return to one of their beaches to have a fabulous massage
I would like to soak up the sun on Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman. We have thunder, lightning and torrential rain as I write this comment here in North Wales so any beach in a sunny location would be nice!
Weymouth beach. Had many happy holidays there, first with my mum and then my husband and children. Many happy memories.
Always fascinated by the Navagio Beach or shipwreck bay on zakynthos
Always thought that the Copacabana beach would be a hoot to visit. I’m not the right shape but who cares.
Silver Strand Beach in Malin Beg, Donegal, Ireland is a wonderful horse shoe shaped silver beach. I would love to return.
Byron Bay, Byron Beach would be fabulous not only is it stunning but it would also mean that we were back in Australia and would be able to see friends and explore the country further.
I’d love to visit the beach in Penang after reading Clare Flynn’s books set there
To be honest, at the moment, any beach anywhere would be wonderful!
Waikiki, Honolulu in Hawaii would be my idea of heaven
Fakistra Beach, Greece seems so appealing, very quiet cove, white sands, turquoise waters and a backdrop of cliffs and woodland …. perfect!
Navagio Beach, Zakynthos, Greece set on the Ionian island. Deep blue sea and white sandy cove. The dream beach.
I would love to visit pink beaches on Bermuda!
I’ve been seeing lots of photos of beautiful beaches in the Maldives recently, so if money were no object, that’s where I’d be headed!
The Pink Beach of Komodo, Indonesia. Well, it’s pink……
Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales
I would like to visit Bondi Beach x