Marina Kemp

Nightingale (Fourth Estate) is the debut novel from Marina Kemp, the Director of Ink Academy, the providers of bespoke creative writing courses. And what a fantastic first novel it is! Set in rural Southern France a young nurse comes to live in with the dying man who once was the dominant personality in the village. The characters are well drawn, flawed, and have mixed reactions to this stranger coming into their midst. The girl Marguerite is weighed down by her own events of the past and it’s a nervous journey for the reader as we explore if she can find a new life and redemption. Highly recommended as an early choice for intelligent, literary summer reading.… (meer)