A Drop in the Ocean, Jenni Ogden
A Drop in the Ocean, Jenni Ogden
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A Drop in the Ocean
A Novel

Author: Jenni Ogden

Narrator: Cat Gould

Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/14/2018

Categories: Fiction, Psychological, Women

Synopsis

On her forty-ninth birthday, Anna Fergusson, Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert, arrives at an unwanted crossroads when the funding for her research lab is cut. With her confidence shattered and her future uncertain, on impulse she rents a cabin for a year on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. However Turtle Island, alive with sea birds and nesting Green turtles, is not the retreat she expected. Here she finds love—for the eccentric islanders who become her family; for Tom, the laid-back turtle whisperer; and for the turtles whose ancient mothering instincts move her to tears. But Anna finds that even on her idyllic drop in the ocean there is pain, and as the months fly past her dream for a new life is threatened by a darkness that challenges everything she has come to believe about the power of love.

Evocative and thought-provoking, A Drop in the Ocean is a story about second chances and hard lessons learned in the gentlest of ways.

About Jenni Ogden

Jenni Ogden grew up in a country town in the South Island of New Zealand, in a home bursting with books and music. Armed with New Zealand and Australian university degrees in zoology and psychology, she took up a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked with H.M., the most famous amnesiac in history, before returning to an academic position at Auckland University, where she immersed herself in clinical psychology and neuropsychology, as well as traveling extensively and writing about her patients' moving stories in two books, Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology and Trouble in Mind: Stories from a Neuropsychologist's Casebook. Ogden and her husband now live off-grid on a spectacular island off the coast of New Zealand, with winters spent traveling and at their second home in tropical Far North Queensland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on January 01, 2025

Some stories deserve to be read slowly. Savored because the characters feel like family – or friends you want to hang around with. This one is told by Anna. Anna is a loner. A long-time medical researcher who has chosen this field because she would rather do this than be around people. Then her gran......more

Goodreads review by Jenni on March 28, 2021

Hope you enjoy this book as much as I loved writing it! And if you ever have a chance to spend time on a coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef, take it. Likewise if you get an opportunity to watch (quietly and without bright lights) marine turtles nesting, you are in for some magic. But it is not all......more

Goodreads review by Bianca on August 30, 2017

A Drop in the Ocean is Jenni Ogden's debut novel. The central character is Anna Fergusson, almost fifty, a neuroscientist, specialised in Huntington's Disease. When she loses her job, she impulsively decides to rent a cabin on Turtle Island, a secluded place in the Australian Great Barrier Reef. She's......more

Goodreads review by Paula on June 29, 2016

It made me a bit nervous when the story turned out to be about a lady from Boston moving to an island in Australia. As an Aussie, I've often groaned out loud about the inaccurate way we are portrayed in fiction for American readers. Writers are sometimes way off when they imagine the attitudes we pr......more

Goodreads review by Sportyrod on June 07, 2023

Bookclub. The others DNF. But I soldiered on… Mutton dressed as lamb. Or is it lamb dressed as mutton? A 49 year old woman from Boston doesn’t receive a grant to continue her research on Huntington’s disease. She wallows in self-pity, and eventually decides to have a gap year by taking a camp caretak......more

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