Ellyn Bache

Meet award-winning fiction writer Ellyn Bache, author of eight novels (including "Safe Passage," which became a Susan Sarandon film), a short story collection that won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, several books for young people, and a nonfiction journal about sponsoring refugees.

Welcome! I hope your summer is shaping up to be as beautiful as it is here in the Upstate of South Carolina . . . where about this time of year, despite the natural beauty all around us, folks begin yearning to head east to the ocean. My novel, Daughters of the Sea, just out in trade paperback, is about just that. A Reviewers Choice Book of the Year Nominee, it's the story of three generations of women with a special attraction to water -- one who's lived by the ocean all her adult life and longs for the sea when she moves inland, one who works as a dowser finding underground streams for well-drillers, and one who's drawn to the serenity of a mountain lake (but whose experience ends up being far from serene).

Daughters of the Sea was a Top Pick from RT BookReviews, which called it a "charming, delightful book, filled with surprises and a combination of emotion, humor, and mystery." I think you'll like it, too. I hope you'll get to read it at the beach, or by the pool, or beside the lake. Happy summer!