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A Tangled Web – A Novella is a coming of age novella by M L Sparrow.
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Japan, 2011
Taiyo is a normal high-school girl living with her Grandmother in Sendai. She goes to school, partakes in club activities and hangs out with her two best friends, twin brothers Ryuu and Kairi. However, her perfect world is shattered when she begins dating Kairi but quickly discovers she’s already in love with Ryuu.
A tangled web of lies surrounds the pair, but everything is suddenly knocked into perspective on March 11th when they are caught up in a natural disaster that devastates the country and robs thousands of their homes, their possessions and their lives…
A Word from the Author
Though A Tangled Web is a work of fiction – Taiyo’s story comes entirely from my own imagination – however, it is based on real events, namely the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan on March 11th 2011, therefore, a lot of research went into it before I even started writing.
Some of the websites I found most useful in my research are listed on my website, but I also read several books, which were all very good. Life After the Tsunami by the Japanese Center of Education is a collection of survival stories and also visits the survivors after the event to see how they are coping. This particular book was very helpful in understanding how people felt before, during and after the even.
On the other hand, Strong in the Rain by Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill was more factual and covered all aspects of the event including the Fukushima nuclear disaster and it was the book I actually found most helpful in establishing a time line.
Both these books were helpful in their own ways, as were the other book and websites I read, and I ended up really enjoying all my research and being fascinated by what I discovered.
(M L Sparrow, March 2017)
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