David Starkey spoke with Central Coast author Tracy Shawn’s for the Independent after her debut novel, The Grace of Crows, was published 2013. Her second novel, Floating Underwater, has just been published.
We don’t want to give away too many plot twists in your new novel, Floating Underwater, but can you tell potential readers what the book is about?
Fearing that her premonitions not only predict the future but may also change its very course, Paloma Leary is caught in a world between what she thinks is real and what she tells herself can’t possibly be. After her latest vision foretelling a third miscarriage comes true, Paloma questions her own sanity. But when a life-changing vision reveals a tragic secret from her past, Paloma learns to accept her gifts and embraces a far different future than she ever could have imagined.