{"id":6208,"date":"2023-11-19T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/?page_id=6208"},"modified":"2024-01-30T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:40:50","slug":"karen-powell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/karen-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Powell – Fifteen Wild Decembers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FIFTEEN WILD DECEMBERS<\/strong>
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Emily Bronte, her sisters and brother live in isolation, grieving for their dead mother. Raised by their widower father in a parsonage on the edge of the village of Howarth, they pass their days roaming the nearby moors and inventing complex fictional worlds which, as they mature, evolve into poems and stories that capture the romance and desolate beauty of the wild heathlands they know so well. When the time comes for them to venture out into the world to earn a living, each of them struggles to adapt, but for Emily the change is catastrophic. Considered difficult and aloof, she struggles to make friends or to adapt to work as a schoolteacher. However, beneath the surface, her mind is in turmoil as she envisions the story that will eventually become Wuthering Heights<\/em>, her one, extraordinary novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poetic and melancholic, and echoing Emily Bronte\u2019s own literary voice, Fifteen Wild Decembers<\/em> is an immersive reimaging of an extraordinary life. Powell\u2019s descriptions of the breath-taking landscapes and elemental weather of North Yorkshire envelope the reader, allowing them to feel as if they are experiencing the world as Emily did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taking its title from one of Emily\u2019s own poems, Fifteen Wild Decembers<\/em> explores the trauma of childhood grief and isolation while reminding us that we must look at what\u2019s hidden below the surface to really understand who someone is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Want to know more? We\u2019ve created a reading guide for this book \u2013 just click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KAREN POWELL<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Karen Powell grew up in Rochester, Kent, but now lives with her family in North Yorkshire. She works at York Minster Fund, an independent charity which raises money for the conservation and restoration of York Minster. Her novel The River Within<\/em> won a Northern Writers Award and was published by Europa Editions in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018The passionate attack of the writing is remarkable, and the picture of Haworth as a volatile hive of creativity is wonderfully imagined.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ORDINARY HUMAN FAILINGS
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