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In The Shadows
In The Shadows is set in modern day Wales and begins twenty years after the disappearance of a young boy thought by many to be taken by the mysterious Fair Folk, mischievous pixies known to haunt the local woodland and lure lost little boys into their world. It follows each of the remaining four children, grown up now and living very different lives...
The first and central character is living life as a tramp, carrying with him a burden so great that to reveal it to his oldest friends will destroy all he has ever known. But if he does not reveal it what will become of him? Is he destined to live the life he now lives, the life he chose for himself all those years ago?
The second is a successful business woman living in a grand house with a gorgeous, female American lover and a dark secret of her own. If she tells the others about it, what will they think of her?
The third is a teacher, physically abused by his wife, too afraid to have an affair with the woman of his dreams and about to become a father of a child he knows is not his... but after everything that happened, perhaps his lot in life is to suffer?
The fourth is a vicar, an extremely intelligent Oxford University graduate who knows more about life, love and the past than all of them. He returns home after a year in Australia to take up a post in the local vicarage where he intends to vanquish some demons of his own.
And what of the missing boy? What truly happened in the woods all those years ago is revealed in the thrilling climax!
The first and central character is living life as a tramp, carrying with him a burden so great that to reveal it to his oldest friends will destroy all he has ever known. But if he does not reveal it what will become of him? Is he destined to live the life he now lives, the life he chose for himself all those years ago?
The second is a successful business woman living in a grand house with a gorgeous, female American lover and a dark secret of her own. If she tells the others about it, what will they think of her?
The third is a teacher, physically abused by his wife, too afraid to have an affair with the woman of his dreams and about to become a father of a child he knows is not his... but after everything that happened, perhaps his lot in life is to suffer?
The fourth is a vicar, an extremely intelligent Oxford University graduate who knows more about life, love and the past than all of them. He returns home after a year in Australia to take up a post in the local vicarage where he intends to vanquish some demons of his own.
And what of the missing boy? What truly happened in the woods all those years ago is revealed in the thrilling climax!
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First published January 25, 2012
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Robin Gilbert
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I've been games programming for over 30 years (starting with the Spectrum) and writing for over 20. Blimey, that sounds a lot. I live in Brisbane with my wife, two children and Nelly and Flossie the cavoodles. We also unwittingly support the local possums.
I love to write science fiction (with an unhealthy interest in dystopian worlds, about which my Speckledom series of stories is about, beginning with Brightly Falling) and fantasy (the Gateway World stories, of which The Watchman's Daughter is my most recent). I also dabble in a strange kind of fantasy / humour hybrid (the vastgreen forest; Double Negative) and occasionally feel compelled to write a slipstream tale (Elysium).
I give my stories away for free in the hope that somebody, some day, will read something in one of them and think ... “Wow! That’s so cool. I’m going to be a writer.” ... just as I did when I was 16 years old and found a dusty old copy of Asimov’s Foundation in the attic.
I've been games programming for over 30 years (starting with the Spectrum) and writing for over 20. Blimey, that sounds a lot. I live in Brisbane with my wife, two children and Nelly and Flossie the cavoodles. We also unwittingly support the local possums.
I love to write science fiction (with an unhealthy interest in dystopian worlds, about which my Speckledom series of stories is about, beginning with Brightly Falling) and fantasy (the Gateway World stories, of which The Watchman's Daughter is my most recent). I also dabble in a strange kind of fantasy / humour hybrid (the vastgreen forest; Double Negative) and occasionally feel compelled to write a slipstream tale (Elysium).
I give my stories away for free in the hope that somebody, some day, will read something in one of them and think ... “Wow! That’s so cool. I’m going to be a writer.” ... just as I did when I was 16 years old and found a dusty old copy of Asimov’s Foundation in the attic.
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