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Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
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The Art of Devotion
— published 2010 — 4 editions |
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The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
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The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
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The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I
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The Art of Devotion
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In the tradition of bestselling authors Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Samantha Bruce-Benjamin’s brilliant and timeless debut unveils the dark side of human nature as four women share the poignant tale of love, obsession, and ultimate betrayal that binds them forever.
Have we all not wished to keep forever the one person we love the most?
The secluded beaches of a sun-drenched Mediterranean island are the perfect playground for young Sebastian and Adora. Emotionally adrift from their mother, Adora shelters her sensitive older brother from the cruelties of the world. Sophie does not question her children’s intense need for one another until it’s too late. Her beloved son’s affections belong to Adora, and when he drowns in the sea, she has no one else to blame.
Still heartbroken years later, Adora fills her emptiness with Genevieve, the precocious young daughter of her husband’s business associate and his jealous wife, Miranda. Thrilled to be invited into the beautiful and enigmatic Adora’s world, the child idolizes her during their summers together. Yet, as the years progress, Genevieve begins to suspect their charmed existence is nothing more than a carefully crafted illusion. Soon, she too is ensnared in a web of lies.
Stunningly told in the tragic voices of four women whose lives are fatefully entangled, The Art of Devotion is evocative and haunting, a story of deceit, jealousy, and the heartbreaking reality of love’s true power.
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“It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a shattering, not a tearing apart, there is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation. It is merely an internal realization that something treasured you never knew you had is leaving forever.”
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Art of Devotion
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Art of Devotion
“I have lived the life I longed for in my heart. And it is beautiful there.”
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
“Sometimes we are written down in books. Or, someone tells a story in which our name figures. And so we live on, through someone else’s voice…
These are the indelible marks others make of us, like the watermarks of high tides, names carved into barks, or stamps branded onto belongings. For what else is history but the collected voices of others, who sing a chorus of what once was. It is not words but voices that are the inscriptions seared onto pages, into minds, of the fragments others glean, as we live our lives in passing.
Flitting and fl eeting, we rub off as we move through, and in our wake is cast the dust of the stars that we become. And sometimes it is caught on the fingers of others, and they press that gold to their lips, where it glistens, an eternal testimony to the fact that they adored us: So we, those of us who
remember, we grow more golden as we age, as if cast into statues that commemorate the splendor of those who loved us, and those we were privileged
to love.”
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
These are the indelible marks others make of us, like the watermarks of high tides, names carved into barks, or stamps branded onto belongings. For what else is history but the collected voices of others, who sing a chorus of what once was. It is not words but voices that are the inscriptions seared onto pages, into minds, of the fragments others glean, as we live our lives in passing.
Flitting and fl eeting, we rub off as we move through, and in our wake is cast the dust of the stars that we become. And sometimes it is caught on the fingers of others, and they press that gold to their lips, where it glistens, an eternal testimony to the fact that they adored us: So we, those of us who
remember, we grow more golden as we age, as if cast into statues that commemorate the splendor of those who loved us, and those we were privileged
to love.”
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
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“The dead are the stars by which we navigate.”
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― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
“We are only as good as we are remembered.”
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
“Sometimes we are written down in books. Or, someone tells a story in which our name figures. And so we live on, through someone else’s voice…
These are the indelible marks others make of us, like the watermarks of high tides, names carved into barks, or stamps branded onto belongings. For what else is history but the collected voices of others, who sing a chorus of what once was. It is not words but voices that are the inscriptions seared onto pages, into minds, of the fragments others glean, as we live our lives in passing.
Flitting and fl eeting, we rub off as we move through, and in our wake is cast the dust of the stars that we become. And sometimes it is caught on the fingers of others, and they press that gold to their lips, where it glistens, an eternal testimony to the fact that they adored us: So we, those of us who
remember, we grow more golden as we age, as if cast into statues that commemorate the splendor of those who loved us, and those we were privileged
to love.”
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
These are the indelible marks others make of us, like the watermarks of high tides, names carved into barks, or stamps branded onto belongings. For what else is history but the collected voices of others, who sing a chorus of what once was. It is not words but voices that are the inscriptions seared onto pages, into minds, of the fragments others glean, as we live our lives in passing.
Flitting and fl eeting, we rub off as we move through, and in our wake is cast the dust of the stars that we become. And sometimes it is caught on the fingers of others, and they press that gold to their lips, where it glistens, an eternal testimony to the fact that they adored us: So we, those of us who
remember, we grow more golden as we age, as if cast into statues that commemorate the splendor of those who loved us, and those we were privileged
to love.”
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
“There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.”
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
“Meet me on the road that leads to the sea and I'll wait for you and you'll wait for me.”
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
― Samantha Bruce-Benjamin, The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
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Thank you for your friend request! I am so excited to hear you will have a new book coming out. I very much enjoyed The Art of Devotion and was just wondering the other day if you had anything else in the works. I look forward to reading it!
Dear Misha, Thank you so much for your kind words. I hope you will love it too and that it won't be long before you are able to read it.
Best wishes,
Samantha
Hey Samantha! Thanks for your friend request!I have read some really great reviews about your book and its on my wishlist. I have to wait much longer in my country , I guess but I am sure when I am able to read it I will love it.Misha
Thanks again, Barbara! That's so wonderful to hear.
I checked your video out and it sounds to be a great book, one that you will want to read from start to finish. Congratulations and the Best of Luck.Barbara
