 When Europa Rode
the Bull by Barbara
Bérot ISBN:
0-9748899-0-3 Soft cover
Fiction $18.95 Available at Barnes & Noble Amazon Borders Books Waterstone’s Independent
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CONTACT: Barbara Bérot email: barbaraberot@comcast.net Emotional Page-turner Enchanting Fans around the World May Be the Best Book You’ve
NEVER Heard of! This riveting
first novel in a trilogy is inspiring readers to visit its magical setting,
St. Andrews, Scotland: Is this the beginning of a cult? MECHANICSVILLE, Pennsylvania When Europa Rode the
Bull has all the elements of an immediate classic: love, sex,
betrayal, loss, and redemption, but because it was independently published
in 2004, few readers were even aware of its existence. Lacking the fanfare
and hype of big house releases, it was left to the few who discovered
it to give it a very personal thumbs up or down—the truest test of
a novel’s appeal. Four years later, the results
are patently clear: overwhelmingly positive reviews, friend passing
it to friend, book clubs raving about it, and fan mail pouring in from
around the world. There are even signs of the beginnings of a cult-like
following, as fans with books in hand make pilgrimages to St. Andrews,
Scotland, the setting for the story, to follow in the characters’
footsteps. American author Barbara
Bérot regularly hears from readers. “I’ve had letters from
as far away as New Zealand and Australia, telling me how much they love
this novel, that they couldn’t put it down. But perhaps the most flattering
testimony has come from my Scottish fans who tell me that I got it right,
that I captured the unique spirit of St. Andrews.” Bérot has also had requests
from book clubs to take them on a tour of the setting. “For an author,
this has to be the most gratifying thing of all; people are so swept
up by the story they want to be closer to it—to literally walk the
streets the characters walked, to sit in the same pubs and have a pint
where they did.” The storyline is anything but
predictable. Faced with the possibility that she may be HIV positive,
Annie d’Inard leaves her husband and returns to St. Andrews for the
first time in twenty-two years, drawn by the memory of Andrew and the
once-in-a-lifetime love they shared. Fate had cruelly separated them
and set them on different paths, but it intervenes once again and leaves
them with impossible choices to make. To put it simply, this novel
will make you ache and will leave you missing the characters, hungry
for more, eagerly anticipating book two of the trilogy... # # # Author Barbara Bérot cruised through Europe in the spring and summer of 1972 on a 1963 Norton motorcycle. That adventure in all its glory and terror inspired her debut novel, When Europa Rode the Bull. To contact the author, please send an email to barbaraberot@comcast.net. To read the first chapter, visit www.BarbaraBerot.com. |