WRITING

Seek the Singing Fish​

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Roma’s debut novel, Seek The Singing Fish, was recently published by époque press and launched at the Waterstones Head Office (Piccadilly Circus) on June 23rd 2022. The initial print run sold out in the first two days of publication and has been going global thanks to Roma's international audience (550k+). 

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Orders can be made at Waterstones, Foyles, Amazon and on the époque press website. Copies can also be ordered from your local independent bookshops.

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Growing up in the lagoon town of Batticaloa, a young girl, with an unquenchable curiosity and love of the natural world, is entangled in the trauma and turmoil of the Sri Lankan civil war. Uprooted from everything she holds dear, tragedy and betrayal set in motion an unforgettable odyssey. Torn from east to west, struggling with what it means to belong, she desperately seeks a way home to the land of the singing fish. 

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'A tour de force! Written with such fluency and energy, the words leap off the page. Thoroughly original.'

                                                                         - Reeta Chakrabarti

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'A striking debut novel that charts a childhood ravaged by war and redeemed by the chimerical magic of the natural world. A book studded with fascinating insights into the animal kingdom that gives a fresh moral perspective to exceptional violence.'                                                                                                                                      - Minoli Salgado