Within the next two or
three weeks I hope to release my new novel, Life
Drawings. Like all my novels, it is a story about real people in real
situations. I love exploring what it means to be a human being. It is always my
aim to write ‘truth’. A truth, not the truth. I love reading science
fiction and fantasy. Although the best of these also reveal some kind of truth
about us as a species, and each of us as individuals, they also allow us to
escape our everyday reality. Unfortunately (or, perhaps, fortunately) that is
where most of us spend most of our time. I am grateful that I have not faced
any major catastrophes or tragedies in my life, at least so far. I am grateful
for that because ordinary, day to day life is generally enough of a challenge.
In this novel, as in my earlier work and as, I hope, in books yet unwritten, I
seek to shed just a little light, on just one little corner, of human life.
I have prepared the
following brief blurb for the book:
Tom and Diane are two young misfits who
embark upon a timid relationship. Supported by friends and family, harassed by
an increasingly disturbed Anglican priest, they begin an exploratory journey,
discovering themselves and each other. But a dark secret from Diane's past is
slowly closing in on them.
Do Tom and Diane have a future
together?
Who will live, and who will die?
So there it is: the
first little taste of what is to come. And below, also, is a first glimpse of
the cover (or what probably, may, could be, will be the cover). Stay tuned for
more news!
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