Roma Wells
Author
Books
Roma Wells is a Sri Lankan & Irish Author and BBC Nature & Travel Presenter with a family heritage entwined with wild animals. She is a wildly curious storyteller committed to inspiring awe and positive change for nature. With a background in foreign affairs journalism (Sunday Times, Time Out, Daily Telegraph) and an International Relations degree from Cambridge University, Roma writes books about topical global wildlife issues and the power of the natural world as a refuge amidst the chaos. She is happiest scribbling under trees and at home you will find her bonding with an array of local wildlife and her cat/chief editor, Zorro.
Her debut novel, Seek the Singing Fish, was launched at the Waterstones Head Office in London (June 2022) and the first print run sold out in just 2 days. Her next novel Anoda, an emotionally gripping story exploring human-elephant conflict, is on the way.
She also runs a travel company, Curious Fox, committed to kinder travel that gives back to wildlife conservation and local communities at the grassroots level. She leads adventure group tours around the world connecting people to the wonders of nature and gathering inspiration for her stories.
Roma has a highly engaged global audience on her social media channels (620k+ followers) who keenly follow her storytelling adventures. She had just 1k+ followers when her first book was launched and now her nature-loving global audience are keenly awaiting her next novel!
Instagram: @roma.wells
TikTok: @ramblingroma
Fiction
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SEEK THE SINGING FISH 2022 Epoque Press | 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. Seek the Singing Fish Quotes: 'A tour de force! Written with such fluency and energy, the words leap off the page. Thoroughly original.' '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 ‘Seek the Singing Fish is a wide-eyed, glass-half-full novel of wise, light-footedness over darkness, disaster and betrayal. The language is fecund, crawling, vibrant, bursting with an indefatigable joie de vivre. An odyssey, with a deep love of books woven through its pages, hope is the thing with feathers in this book: a fizzing, crackling joy.’ |