Sara Dwells & The Book of Answers is a thrilling and adventurous tale unlike any other told before. The story begins in the early 1900’ when a young girl named Sara Dwells deeply wishes to escape her mundane existence. She feels as though she is an outcast, and spends most of her time alone sheltered away from the world. But one day an old man from her village tells her of a mysterious book hidden in the basement of the local library. It is said that this book holds magical powers, portals to other worlds, and can also grant any wish desired, that is, if one can make it to the end of its strange and mystical journey.
This ancient enchanted book speaks in riddles and poems, and most of its pages are appear to be without any writing whatsoever. But on one cold and stormy night Sara decides to embark on the journey laid out by an ever appearing map in the book. She is quickly taken into the realms of the strange, the odd, and the magical. As the legend goes, only those who make it to the end of the journey get there wish granted, and no-one ever has. As Sara enters worlds never heard of or seen before, she is helped and hindered by an array of characters, some with good intentions and others with evil plots to steal the book and use it for their own sinister desires.
From the darkest depths of the valleys of hell, to enchanted dream like worlds, Sara risks everything to make it to the end, that is, if she does.
The Book of answers is the holder of dreams
that leads you to places and worlds unseen
A book of magic made of fire and light
through darkness and woe wrong & right
A journey to worlds ancient and new
the book is the map and so are you
Sign your name in the beginning at the books very start
Find the doors you seek and choose with your heart
Any wish you make will be granted true
if you make it to the end, that is, if you do
The last page may be signed when your journey is done
In a place full of stars beneath a thousand suns
Paul Waters is the author of Blackwatertown. He is also an award-winning BBC producer and the co-presenter of the We’d Like A Word books and authors podcast, which was shortlisted for 2020 Books Podcast of the Year.
Paul grew up in Belfast during ‘the Troubles’, was involved in cross-community peace groups and went on to report and produce for BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, the BBC World Service and Channel 5.
His claim to fame is making Pelé his dinner. But Paul has also covered elections in the USA, created an alternative G8 Summit in a South African township, gone undercover in Zimbabwe, conducted football crowds, reported from Swiss drug shooting-up rooms, smuggled a satellite dish into Cuba to produce the first BBC live programmes from the island and produced the World Service’s first live coverage of the 9/11 attacks on America.
Paul has taught in Poland, driven a cab in England, busked in Wales, been a night club cook in New York, designed computer systems in Dublin, presented podcasts for Germans and organised music festivals for beer drinkers. He lives in Buckinghamshire and has two children.
The We'd Like A Word podcast Paul co-hosts can be found at www.wedlikeaword.com
The crime festival Paul organises, Chiltern Kills, can be found at www.chilternkills.com
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