Since winning the Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction for her first novel, The Hungry Tide, Val Wood has become one of the most popular authors in the UK.
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- Children of the Tide (Hungry Tide, book 3) by Valerie Wood
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- Children Of The Tide by Val Wood (Paperback, 2014)
- The Last of the Children of the Tide
Suddenly flying fish flit around and the boat and a little later the skipper frantically points to our right … a huge splash and we catch a glimpse of a whale diving back under, as he blows a fountain into the air. The water extends into the horizon in every direction with no landmass in sight. An eerie feeling sets in as I soak in this other-worldly scenery. As a kid, I remember reading about ancient cultures that viewed the earth as a flat plate propped up by three giant elephants standing on a colossal tortoise, and at the frontiers of this world the seas cascade off into the cosmos.
We plunge waist-deep into the water and make our way towards the beach carrying our equipment above our heads. We meander between reef formations and clam shells of Jurassic proportions, trying to follow the submarine path and eventually, exhausted, aching and sunburnt with cracked lips, we step on terra firma.
We are welcomed by Melanesian greeting songs and women splashing our feet with water, a ritual that will protect us from the evil spirits. After consultations with the elders we get to work, talking to the villagers and inspecting the fruits of the project. IOM has been working here for over a year on climate change adaptation through a community-based approach, a grass-roots methodology we tailored for PNG.
If done right it works, it really works. The bonus is that all these ideas came from the community and, aside from seed funding and guidance from IOM, everything has been designed and constructed by the people themselves.
Children of the Tide (Hungry Tide, book 3) by Valerie Wood
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Children Of The Tide by Val Wood (Paperback, 2014)
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