Finding Albert Strange

by C.C. Canning

'Finding Albert Strange' is a story of redemption, of one family, on one day, seeking to find itself before it is too late.It begins on a beautiful autumn morning without a cloud in the sky as the Saville family set out to join the celebrations on their country's most important day of the year... For Roger Saville a public holiday is the last thing he needs. Under pressure from shareholders and the banks he has a potential investor in his sights, only his briefcase has gone missing together with its life-saving contents and the company lawyer, Lawrence Beck, seems intent on sinking their billion dollar property empire with talk of insider trading. For Joanne Saville the perfect life created for her and her children, Willie and Samantha, is no protection against the sense of foreboding she feels. What is stopping her from reconciling with her estranged father, Albert, and how long does she have left to do so? Willie's day does not begin well. He has a vague memory of Luke putting the two white pills on Nicole's swollen tongue, but nothing of what happened subsequently. For all of them it will be a day to remember, but for Albert Strange, reluctant war hero, it will be a day he struggles to survive.

352 pages, Paperback

First published February 7, 2013

About the author

C C Canning (Chris) is a New Zealander who has spent a large part of his working life in London, New York and Sydney, initially in journalism and advertising before moving into senior corporate roles in property development and financing. He published his first novel, “A Day to Remember”, in 2005 and a revised version under the title “Finding Albert Strange” in 2013. This novel, set in Australia, was a featured review in the November 2016 edition of Kirkus Reviews and the screenplay adaptation was a finalist in the 2017 Adapted Screenplay Contest and the 2017 Byron Bay Film Festival. His screenplay, “Bedeviled: A Song for Leonard Cohen”, won the Empire Drama Award in the 2017 New York Screenplay Contest and a Drama Award at the 2017 Cannes Screenplay Contest. The novel, “A Song for Leonard”, set in New York in the late Seventies and Nineties, with an accompanying songbook, is close to finalization and release. Now writing fulltime, he has recently completed the suspense thriller, “The Panda Provenance", set in Vietnam. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

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