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Courtroom drama, culture
clashes, a mother’s love, and a strong and smart female
protagonist with the backdrop of a hurricane-conflicted
sea all fuse powerfully to create “Great and Wide Sea,”
written by southern novelist and lawyer Deborah Wagnon.
Spanning the life of Neva Majette, the novel set in coastal
Georgia begins in 1906 and follows Neva through her life
journey to 1966. The book tells a story of morality and
justice and follows Neva’s life as daughter of a lighthouse
keep inextricably bound to the sea. Knocked down often
by the circumstances of life, Neva nevertheless discovers
an inner resiliency to outsmart the system and win while
refusing to be driven by revenge. As a young woman, Neva
must surrender her only child for adoption and later fights
to become the first woman attorney in 1930s Georgia.
The book is a hybrid of “an overwhelming sense of place
with the added components of love, pain and legal intrigue,”
according to the author. Discussion is already under
way to transfer the book to film.
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