Today as part of Ruth Estevez’s blog tour, I am pleased to be shining a spotlight on the third book in the Jiddy Vardy series, Jiddy Vardy Full Sail, which is due for release tomorrow the 2nd December 2023.
This historical fiction for young adults is a thrilling tale of one girl’s search for identity and love, set against a backdrop of wild seas, smuggling and violence.
1796
When the sea can’t be put on trial for murder, who must pay the price?
A smuggler with a conscience, the defiant and contradictory Jiddy Vardy sets out to find choices and freedom for local girls worn thin by poverty.
Caught in the net that is Robin Hood’s Bay, Jiddy looks to majestic York, little realising that even loved ones can cage you when they think they are offering the chance of a lifetime.
Head inland to the promise of work, out to sea to the unknown, or stay in a close-knit community of smugglers and familiar faces?
What’s it to be for our endlessly curious, yet ultimately open-hearted Jiddy Vardy?
Blurb for Jiddy Vardy Full Sail by Ruth Estevez
Yorkshire author Ruth Estevez previously worked as a scriptwriter for major BBC young people’s programming. She was born in Yorkshire and often uses the much loved landscape is a third character in her novels. Her career in theatre, TV and a subscription library have influenced her work.
Script writing for Bob the Builder morphed into novel writing. Very much a Northern writer with Latin touches, Ruth is interested in social differences, the outsider and finding our place in the world.
For those not familiar with Ruth’s Jiddy Vardy series here is the blurb for the first book.
1779
Blurb for Jiddy Vardy by Ruth Estevez
On tumultuous waters a girl is born as pirates board the ship . . .
Jiddy Vardy is a survivor.
Rescued at birth, she grows up in Robin Hood’s Bay, a community which harbours a dangerous secret that could get you killed.
Always the outsider, with her dark skin and hair, at sixteen Jiddy is clever, brave and headstrong, soon risking her life and freedom to play her part in the Bay’s clandestine activities.
Then, just as romance blossoms and Jiddy finally feels like she belongs, figures from the past threaten to tear her world apart, and she has to decide where her loyalties truly lie.
A thrilling tale of one girl’s search for identity and love, set against a backdrop of wild seas, smuggling and violence.
To find out more about Ruth Estevez and her Jiddy Vardy series you can take a look at her website: www.artgoesglobal.wordpress.com, follow her on x/Twitter: @RuthEstevez2 and follow her on Instagram: @ruthestevezwriter
To read reviews of the Jiddy Vardy series check out Goodreads and Amazon.
I would like to thank Dave from The Write Reads for inviting me on this tour. Thank you.
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