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    ‘Paddle’ – An Essay Exploring Remembrance

    Posted on October 15, 2017October 16, 2017 by Sarah
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    I’m thrilled that my essay, ‘Paddle’ is the Sunday Read on Dear Damsels. You can read the essay here…

    It explores the experience that started my love affair with kayaking – a new passion that helps me to remember…

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    #Dear Damsels #essay #kayaking #new writing #non-fiction #publication

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    From ‘Autumn’ by Ali Smith
    Quote from ‘Love Like Salt’ by Helen Stevenson

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    My stack for ‘after I’ve handed in my first dr My stack for ‘after I’ve handed in my first draft’ has been added to this week with these beauties by @kateriordanauthor and @nikkismith_author - this pile is looking sooo tempting but have to resist until all the words are down!
    Just sat, casually reading a copy of **MY BOOK** - Just sat, casually reading a copy of **MY BOOK** - still can’t quite believe I have a physical copy here, in my house!! My girls are just as thrilled - they keep reverently opening and closing the cover...! Please say this doesn’t get old...?! #thesanatorium
    Gorgeous glimmer from our picnic yesterday... Gorgeous glimmer from our picnic yesterday...
    Early start for me today and at that stage of the Early start for me today and at that stage of the edit process where the paper takes over...help! (Very envious of all the Insta authors with their perfectly arranged desks - never going to be me...!)
    Molly is obsessed with this spider 🕷 web gratin Molly is obsessed with this spider 🕷 web grating and I am too - it’s all bricked up behind now but it gets my imagination firing...! Gothic vibes all the way...
    Gorgeous dappled light in the woods on my run toda Gorgeous dappled light in the woods on my run today...the perfect start to a writing day!I’ve been suffering a bit with RSI and it definitely helps to get the blood flowing in the morning (hot showers help too!)
    Today I’m sharing another inspiration for THE SA Today I’m sharing another inspiration for THE SANATORIUM - Hotel Chetzeron In Crans Montana - this hotel, like the one in my novel, has had a previous life, but in this instance, as a gondola 🚠 station high up in the Swiss Alps.They have converted this abandoned gondola station into a stunning hotel and as it’s so high in the mountains, access for guests is usually via skidoo!I’m fascinated by repurposed buildings in general and I love the fact that the vast glass window (image on the centre right) at the front of the hotel used to be the where the gondolas 🚠 entered and exited the station!The design is very contemporary like the hotel in my novel, featuring lots of glass and a beautiful outdoor pool, but without the creepy design features of Le Sommet... #thesanatoriumMost images courtesy of @chetzeron
    I’ve had a few readers ask about the inspiration I’ve had a few readers ask about the inspiration for Le Sommet, the hotel in my novel that was converted from an old, abandoned (and creepy!) sanatorium - and this building in Crans Montana in Valais in the Swiss Alps is part of it! (I’ve shared this photo before so may be familiar to some insta friends!) The clinic opened in 1903 as a sanatorium for treating tuberculosis patients, primarily from Geneva. I’ve managed to find some photographs and a postcard of the original building - fascinating to see what has changed and what has stayed the same! This particular spot was chosen as it was near the high mountain - for the fresh, clean air at altitude, and is sheltered from the wind and also gets plenty of sunshine ☀️ - all things that were believed to help the patients rehabilitate. Wonderful to see it still there, treating patients, although for different reasons now! In the next couple of days, I’ll share the ultra-modern hotel in Crans Montana that helped inspire the design of Le Sommet... #thesanatorium
    Sore arm, sore back, but in my head I’m in beaut Sore arm, sore back, but in my head I’m in beautiful Besançon in France this morning. We’ve been to Besançon a few times and I love the beautiful architecture and striking scenery. I’m channelling the stunning blue from a doorway in Besançon in my writing today - my favourite shade! (Swipe to see my Besançon balcony of dreams..)
    The girls have gone...first day excitement meant t The girls have gone...first day excitement meant they were up and dressed about half an hour before they usually would be - let’s see if it lasts into next week!
    **Thrilled** to share the brilliant US cover for T **Thrilled** to share the brilliant US cover for THE SANATORIUM which will be published by @pameladormanbooks @vikingbooks on the 23rd Feb 2021!It’s been fascinating to see this atmospheric cover develop for the NA market and I couldn’t be more grateful to the team for their amazing work on the design! (Loving the frosty detail on the top left..) It captures everything about the sinister, creepy nature of the novel and setting and then some!Pre-order info to copy and paste into your browser... www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659480/the-sanatorium-by-sarah-pearse/Blurb below:A chilling, atmospheric novel in which a female detective must uncover the truth behind a luxury hotel’s dark past and stop the killer in their midstHalf-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumors, it has recently been renovated into a lavish hotel.An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place detective Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin’s on a career break, scarred by a particularly brutal case she just can’t shake. So when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.But when Elin wakes the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. And she soon realizes that Laure is not the first person to have vanished mysteriously from the old sanatorium.As one of the worst snowstorms in thirty years descends, Elin starts to connect the dots between Laure’s disappearance and the hotel’s troubling history. Just when she thinks she’s making progress, a body is found, staged to send a terrifying message. With avalanches closing off all access to the hotel, Elin is under pressure to uncover the sanatorium’s secrets and find her brother’s fiancée before the killer strikes again.
    Going to miss this gappy curly girl when she goes Going to miss this gappy curly girl when she goes back to school - although my working day will expand dramatically! I think she is going to find the school day a bit of an adjustment after this long break - wish us luck!

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    • @SarahVPearse 24th Sep 2020 12:45

      Very intriguing book post - thanks @BenWillisUK @ZaffreBooks I can’t wait to #EnterTheSpiral - hearing great things… https://t.co/vqHPdai3Ye

    • @SarahVPearse 23rd Sep 2020 11:51

      So thrilled that copies of #TheSanatorium are making their way out into the world! Eep! https://t.co/K31sLXwR8X

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