At Motown Records, her songs co-written with Leonard Caston include Nathan Jones, for The Supremes I Can’t Quit Your Love, for The Jackson Five, and The Four Tops Tell Her Love Has Felt The Need, for Eddie Kendricks. She began her songwriter career co-writing “Feelin Kinda Sunday” for Frank and Nancy Sinatra. Kathleen Wakefield is an American songwriter/author. Kate Angus, Founding Editor, Augury Books Her book is a beautiful elegy to a different world, a gorgeous fever dream. Months after reading the book, her desolate landscape and peripatetic characters are still wandering through my imagination. Like an extended poem about all the BIG questions in life.” From the Curator Wakefield’s writing is so wonderful, so lyrical, thoughtful and thought provoking.
Her characters search for the mystery of life, search for answers to the questions we’ve all asked ourselves during the long dark night of the soul. Reader Birute Putrius says, “In her book, In The Foam Of The Blue Waves, Kathleen Wakefield writes so beautifully about the watery world of the Russian River, a place that trembles in the light of sun glinting against water. In poetic, compelling language, Wakefield shows readers what it is to look at the edge of the world and the longest and most beautiful place in the universe. Drawing on childhood thoughts and memories to craft this unique work of fiction, author Kathleen Wakefield allows her own experiences in Morro Bay and in a cabin by the Russian River to shape her novella. What he finds in the fields of California is a landscape of fertility and destruction: a lush world beset by natural disaster. Nicholas is a missionary who traveled from Nevada to California as 19 year-old intending to do the church’s work, with documentation in his hand and uncertainty in his heart. In a precarious forest shack over California’s Russian River, two women wait out a storm and reflect on the third, missing, member of their family: the husband, the father, the wandering troubled soul.
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