The love for geology, nature, music are the stimulus for writing a story of love, friendship, resilience, humour set in the early 80s in territories of rare beauty: Devonshire and the Welsh coast on the European side, New England on the American side; in between the majesty of the Atlantic Ocean.(...) Not far away the Ocean placidly cloaked the basaltic layers of the coast; the ripples of the water, having reached the mainland, created flakes of white foam that dotted the pitch black of the night. A nocturnal dance between two lovers, the sea and the land, impetuous, placid, quarrelsome but eternally linked.(...) "The beauty of writing a novel is that you have all the space to develop the story and all the time to make sure that the characters define themselves and interact with each other. I hope that Ardesia will be able to stimulate the reader's curiosity about the events of the protagonist Richard and catapult into an historical era, the 80s, which was certainly very different from today".