Virginia Prize for Fiction Winner Kipling & Trix Is A Fictionalized Biography Of Rudyard Kipling

NEW YORK - April 3, 2015 - PRLog -- Virginia Prize for Fiction Winner Kipling & Trix Is A Fictionalized Biographical Account Of Rudyard Kipling

Aurora Metro Press and author Mary Hamer are pleased to announce the promotion of their awarding winning book, Kipling & Trix. Winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction, Kipling & Trix tells the story of Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book, and his sister Trix, as they grow up.

Both mean to be writers, both are looking for love but they are hampered by the bitter legacy of their childhood. Not quite six, Rudyard and his little sister, Trix, just three, had been left behind in Southsea by their parents when they went back to India.  The children found themselves abandoned to the power of a foster mother determined to break the boy’s spirit and to take the little girl for herself. How will this past shape their future lives? Based on extensive research and set in exotic locations across the world, Kipling & Trix is a story to fascinate women and men readers alike.

Praise for Kipling & Trix:
'Hamer's book opens up the complex world of the Kiplings, moving between continents and momentous world events' -Daily Mail

'Mary Hamer's Kipling and Trix elegantly walks the borders between fact and fiction in her retelling of Rudyard Kipling's story and his relationship with his sister Trix' - Historical Novel Society

‘Mary Hamer's novel about the lives of Rudyard Kipling and his sister Alice, 'Trix' to her family, is intelligent, vividly imagined and a real page-turner’ – Kipling Journal

'The childhood scenes are particularly compelling, revealing how brother and sister, though dependents, were gradually becoming rivals....The book is a rich collage of potent scenes - you shift viewpoint and we see Rud and Trix through the eyes of many others.' - Pam Johnson, Words Unlimited

"Although based closely on historical fact, Kipling and Trix is a tour-de-force of imaginative fiction as well as a lyrically written, if often harrowing, tale of surprising passion." - Gina Barreca, Huffington Post

"Truly engaging" - The Writes of Women

Kipling & Trix is available in print and ebook formats.

Book Details:
Kipling & Trix
By Mary Hamer
Publisher: Aurora Metro Press
ISBN: 978-1906582340
ASIN: B00GU076TC
Pages: 361
Genre: Historical Fiction, Fictionalized Biography

About The Author:
Mary travels widely and has given talks in many countries. She has been interviewed on television and radio programmes for the BBC, most recently to tell the world about Trix, Rudyard Kipling’s sister. Passionate about research, she’s published four non-fiction books. But it was Rudyard Kipling who lit her imagination as a child and Mary had always wanted to write about him. Realising that the story of his sister, Trix, was just as compelling, she embarked on Kipling & Trix, her first novel, which was awarded the Virginia Prize for Fiction in 2012. She is also the current chair of The Kipling Society.

For review copies, author interviews, or more information please contact:

Mary Hamer
Kiplingandtrix (at) gmail.com
Author’s Website: http://mary-hamer.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KiplingandTrix
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mary_hamer