Call My Name
A Novel
by Jenni Ogden
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Pub Date 15 Sep 2022 | Archive Date 15 Nov 2022
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Description
Two women, bound together by contrasting personalities, friendship, love and home—until motherhood rips them apart
From Jenni Ogden, winner of the 2016 Sarton for Contemporary Fiction, the Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction, Large Publisher, and author of best-selling A Drop in the Ocean, comes a powerful and poignant novel set in the Australian tropics across three decades, exploring friendship, motherhood, grief, and forgiveness.
Her mother dead from a drug overdose, thirteen-year-old Olivia is rescued by Cathie Tulloch, her mother’s friend throughout the years they were held captive in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra in WWII. Welcomed into the Tulloch’s remote family home in the Australian tropics, introverted Olivia is claimed by dramatic, generous, controlling Cassandra Tulloch as her sister and best friend. Moving to the UK at 18, Olivia finds her independence — and partner Ben. But in 1970, after five years away, she is homesick, and ready to fulfill her long-held dream: to make a family of her own. But when the unimaginable happens, destroying the friendship with Cassandra that has been her bedrock for so long, Olivia tells herself that she doesn’t deserve a family, nor a place to call home.
"An emotionally piercing and absorbing account of turbulent female friendship over time, "Call My Name" is also a keen meditation on the powerful pull of connection and belonging—the places and people that shape and change us, forever calling us home."
—Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark
A Note From the Publisher
e-Book ISBN:978-0-473-62963-2
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-473-62961-8
Hardback ISBN: 978-0-473-62962-5
Audiobook ISBN: 978-0-473-62964-9
e-Book ISBN:978-0-473-62963-2
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-473-62961-8
Hardback ISBN: 978-0-473-62962-5
Audiobook ISBN: 978-0-473-62964-9
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-473-62961-8
Hardback ISBN: 978-0-473-62962-5
Audiobook ISBN: 978-0-473-62964-9
e-Book ISBN:978-0-473-62963-2
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-473-62961-8
Hardback ISBN: 978-0-473-62962-5
Audiobook ISBN: 978-0-473-62964-9
Advance Praise
"A gripping story that’s hard to put down, Call My Name draws the reader into complex and deeply human questions about what it means to be a mother, a friend, a family. In Jenni Ogden’s moving and never-predictable novel, there are no easy answers to these questions, as her characters’ lives intertwine over three decades of joy, loss, grief, and—below it all, like a sustaining chord—loyalty and kindness. Call My Name reminds us that love calls us to be generous rather than possessive and that we can go on, even when terrible things happen, because we’re profoundly connected. Layered, sometimes shocking, yet shining with goodness and hope, it’s exactly the kind of story we need right now."
—Barbara Linn Probst, Sarton and Nautilus award-winning author of The Sound Between the Notes and The Color of Ice
“This is a love story ... a love story of couples, a love story of friends, a love story of families. It doesn't shy away from the messiness of love, the inevitable complications of long-lasting love, whether it be romantic love, or parental love, or familial love. Most contemporary in its inclusion of topics such as adoption, abortion, and surrogacy, it also looks back on the atrocities of war. A page turning saga that is fresh in its story, yet provides the warmth of an old-fashioned classic. "
—Romalyn Tilghman, Award-winning author of To the Stars with Difficulties, 2018 Kansas Notable Book of the Year.
“Vivid setting, dynamic plot, and likable characters come together beautifully to deliver an emotionally compelling tale of friendship, love, loss, and forgiveness. Call My Name is a fantastic read.”
—Jodi Wright, Award-winning author of How to Grow an Addict and Eat and Get Gas.
“Filled with authenticity, compassion and grace, Call My Name will find its way deep into your heart and soul, and stay with you long after the last page has been turned.”
—Sally Cole-Misch, Award-winning author of The Best Part of Us
“Call My Name felt so intense and raw that I choked up a few times while reading it…brings out the true essence of friendship. Powerful and inspirational.”
—Emma Megan, Readers Favorite, 5 Star Review
“…realistic, pulled at my heartstrings… unforgettable characters… A masterpiece.”
— Jennifer Ibiam, Readers Favorite, 5 Star Review
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| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780473629632 |
| PRICE | 3.99 |
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