Good Morning, now I have sat contemplating so many thoughts about this book and I tried not to make this review personal but my mind has been racing since this book and sent a lot of thoughts into overdrive. Now before I really rattle on and hopefully not bore you to tears we shall have a wee look at the blurb, just so you know what the book Is about. Now I don’t judge but really I will want to know why you decide not to pick this book up, okay, okay I’m joking and wont judge or hunt you down to find out why but seriously this is one you will want to read.

Right where was I , oh yeah blurb.

Blurb

Ethan Scofield returns to the place of his birth to bury his father. Hidden in one of the upstairs rooms of the old man’s house he finds a strange manuscript, a collection of stories that seems to cover the whole of his father’s turbulent life.
As his own life starts to unravel, Ethan works his way through the manuscript, trying to find answers to the mysteries that have plagued him since he was a child. What happened to his little brother? Why was his mother taken from him? And why, in the end, when there was no one else left, did his own father push him away?
Swinging from the coral cays of the Caribbean to the dangerous deserts of Yemen and the wild rivers of Africa, Turbulent Wake is a bewitching, powerful and deeply moving story of love and loss … of the indelible damage we do to those closest to us and, ultimately, of the power of redemption in a time of change.

Now back to my review which will hopefully not be one big huge ramble.  Paul writes with a huge talent that in a very subtle way had me thinking back over my life. Now I did say I was going to try and not to make this too personal but I think sometimes when you take a book to your heart the review ends up being really personal.

Turbulent Wake is moving, powerful and has all the feels. We meet Ethan who has flown back home after the death of his father. Ethan and his father didn’t really have much of a relationship and his death has Ethan going through the motions, more so when he spies a stack of papers in his father’s study. Turns out his father was a bit of a writer and had pretty much told his life story through the pages.  Paul tells the story through both sets of eyes in a very clever way. We have Ethan telling us about his life currently and also his fathers story through the manuscripts he has left behind.  I admired the fact War had left his story behind for Ethan to read and contemplate on.

We have a family totally divided and so much reflecting on life. Ethan is not really on talking terms with his daughter after splitting up with her mum. Too many mistakes in life a little bit like his father before him. Ethan learns more about his father than he has ever really known about him through the pages and finally get some answers as to why his dad left him. Now I hold my hands up I did stop after a couple of chapters at a time, not really through choice but because my mind was going into some weird overdrive. Now this is where it gets a bit personal, I had in the end a very turbulent relationship with my step dad that resulted in us not talking and this went on for very many years. He never met my children and when they were young I received the call I needed to be at the hospital for my brother and sister if nothing else. What I was faced with was a man defeated and in intensive care, he never recovered and I never ever got my answers. Turbulent Wake left me feeling like If I had the chance, one would I want the answers or am I better never knowing, secondly if I could go back would I try and change things so we hadn’t ended up how we did and could I have changed anything. Answers I will never know and mistakes I don’t want to make with my own children.  Now War’s story is almost journal like and actually something I do, and well like my reviews im not very good at it but I still do it, to leave behind a story to be told for my children when im not here anymore.

To write a review for a book that has stayed with me and left me speechless and I really wanted to do it justice but I just don’t have the words to convey me feelings for this book.. Paul writes with compassion and its heartfelt from start to finish, a  book totally unique that it took my breath away. Turbulent Wake is really one you will not want to miss and you can pick up your copy now……..

I have in no way managed to do this any justice so please check out the other bloggers on the tour, who have managed it beautifully. My thanks to Anne Cater for having me on the blog tour and Orenda books for sucking me in again and had me loving yet another book and one that will stay with me for a very long time to come.