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British author´s new novel ´The Deer Wedding´ set in Croatia

Croatian Times

Rising literary star Penny Simpson has recently published her new book "The Deer Wedding," set in Croatia.

The winner of the prestigious 2007 Rhys Davies short-story award, Simpson was a journalist but now she's also Head of Media at the Welsh National Opera.

Her new book will go on sale on 30 September.

It deals with loss, the fall-out of a war, the appropriation of art and culture and the story of a woman trying to find out who her father really was. Set in Zagreb and Hvar, The Deer Wedding spans two generations, two brutal wars and the controversial histories of two very special works of art.

It is a book inspired by a trip Penny took as a journalist to Croatia, sponsored by the British Council, to look at forging links between Wales and Croatia and other small nations. Her journals from the trip contained lots of material that Penny later used as inspiration for "The Deer Wedding."

The author says: "What particularly interested me was writing about a place where history is still a living (and unspent) force, and, inevitably, the question of whether it is possible to trace out a future when so much has been broken and destroyed."

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