Ask the Author: Alan R.M. Thrush
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Alan R.M. Thrush
Hello, Ben. Thank you for your review. Answering your question, I am mulling the possibility of a sequel to 'Salient', perhaps including some of its surviving characters and tracing them further into the war's final months. I have begun working on a suitable plot.
Alan R.M. Thrush
I subscribe to the idea that the current circumstances of any person's life are the sum of key choices he or she has made throughout it. I like this idea that we are responsible for who we are and where we are because we made the choice; we made the decision. Yet this argument ignores the impact of fate – and by fate I mean the twists and turns in Life’s passage over which we have no control because the decision or choice was taken not by us, but for us: Your boss tells you to postpone that appointment you made with a client in Twin Towers for 9/11 and you live. But for your boss’s decision you would have died. This is an extreme example, but this is what I mean by fate. So I don’t think that my own life holds any special mystery that could form the plot of a particularly good book, no more so than the mysteries in any other man’s life. Life itself is the mystery, and all good novels are revelations of what happens in the moments of crisis that occur in all people’s lives – the choices that they make in those moments and the consequences of those choices.
Alan R.M. Thrush
I have just completed a fourth novel which is currently going through the pre-publication process. Release is scheduled for mid-2024. A sequel to my Great War work, 'A Salient in Flanders', I have written this one as a standalone story - readers will not need to have read 'Salient' to enjoy it. Why did I write it? Well, many readers of 'Salient' asked or wondered what might have happened to the letter mentioned at the end of that story. The new novel will tell all! I have once again done my best to deliver an intriguing read founded on carefully researched factual events taken from the Great War, and interwoven with threads of mystery and romance.
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