DUST by Justine Hardy - Spotlight & Giveaway

 

"He could name this brain silence, one of the basic survival reactions to threat, the one that comes after fight and flight, there to protect the prey from the hunter by freezing all movement. He could see the explanation on the page, exactly as it had been when he had first read it, an oil smudge from someone else's food beside it in the margin."

In Justine Hardy's novel, DUST, Kate is a woman who chooses to work in Pakistan. She creates a second family for herself, far from the cherished warmth of her parents in rural Suffolk, their surrounding soft landscape in stark contrast to the raw land and humanscape of a remote corner of the northwest Himalayas. Kate then disappears and the worlds of genteel English countryside and harsh Gilgit collide in the search for a lost aid worker.

"It's to keep the devil away, a sort of vaccination against disaster and hell, ' she said. Every time she said something like that, he felt like the new boy all over again. It was not because of what she said, but that she had to say it at all, still explaining the way things were."

Justine combines being a writer and commentator with working at the grass roots in two fields that make many uneasy: conflict and the psychological damage of violence.

As a writer and journalist Justine has been writing on South Asia for twenty-five years. While doing this she simultaneously set up an organization in Kashmir, North India, rehabilitating those suffering from the psychological fallout of conflict. In short, Justine works as both writer and mental trauma specialist.

As a journalist and writer she is the author of six books, ranging in subject from war to Hindi film.

Thanks to Smith Publicity we have one copy to giveaway. Just tell us if you've ever been an aid worker or if you know anyone who has done aid work. We'll announce a winner soon. Good luck.

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