New Book

Hello my friends. I has been a very long time. Too long in fact. The reasons for that will become clear due to this post. Aside fron working, I have been working on several novels. 

Thete are more to come soon but lets startt with the one that has been a bit of a passion project.

Its called '12 lives' and its about 12 different versions of the same person.

Me.

As an adopted person its hard sometimes to explain exactky how that feels. Yes, I was loved by my parents but I always had a feeling I waas living someone elses life or that someone was living mine.

With this book, I write about 12 different versions of me. Lets call it a speculative memoir. 

 These 12 interconnected tales take me to different places and different names. I close my eyes and can see someone who looks like me but is different and strange but familiar at the same time.

In 11 of the stories I am adopted. In the last however, my birth mother Rosie, who I finally met in 2019, never gave me up. In that story she faced incrediblr prejudice and povertty.

The stories are all fiction. But they could have come to pass 

Here is the back cover blurb.

One pen stroke can change a destination. What if you could follow the lines you left behind?

‘I am an adopted child. To grow up adopted is to grow up in the company of ghosts, knowing that your entire existence—the clothes you wear, the accent you speak with, the name you answer to—is the result of a single choice on a piece of official parchment.’

On a rainy day in August 1968, a seventeen-year-old girl named Rosie is cornered by a cold administrator and asked to sign away her newborn son. In eleven realities, she touches the pen to the paper, scattering one boy’s soul across wildly different lives. He becomes a stoic dinghy racer on the windswept Norfolk coast; a plum-haired synthesizer player in the neon gloom of a 1985 Soho club; a rugged nightclub bouncer in an industrial steel town; and a high-flying financial broker facing a multi-million-pound collapse on the eve of the millennium.

But in the twelfth reality—the origin line—Rosie drops the pen. Choosing a life of poverty, judgment, and domestic tension over an easier exit, she fights to raise her oldest son herself.

Written with dense, tactile prose and a haunting atmospheric rhythm, 12 Lives is an extraordinary labyrinth of speculative biography. It maps the profound boundary between the quiet, domestic sanctuary of the lives we choose, and the monumental, solitary journeys of the selves we left in the dark.

Here is the link to the ebook if you want to check it out..

https://amzn.eu/d/0dwp2MPQ

Thanks for reading.

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