Sissons Tommy - Cautious A Boat Adrift - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: As a failing journalist cares for his alcoholic grandfather remnants of the elderly man's long - buried stories resurface and drive him to an obsessional search for truth. The land of men is an untouched one. It is the companionship of quiet. It is so many darkened boats heading their own way in the night. Leeds 2017. Disaffected journalist Fred Whitby and his mother visit Grandad Norman following the death of his callous second wife Brenda. Norman has relapsed into alcoholism. Brenda's daughter and her husband have invaded the house. Whilst writing a diary in attempt to revive his creativity Fred finds himself cast adrift in his family history trying frantically to piece together the fragmented memories half - truths secrets and mythologies that lie therein. Disappearances. Post - war protection rackets. An IR a bomb plot. Romantic rivalries. The kidnap of a traitorous miner. As spectres of the past meet with the looming presence of a post - truth future Fred must navigate the illogical and unprovable stories of his grandfather and come to terms with the absence of irrecoverable voices in his quest for whatever truth and meaning remains.
Title: Cautious A Boat Adrift
Author(s): Sissons Tommy
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Barcode: 9781914420658
Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Date: 7/11/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction