Things Fall Apart

by Clio Gray

Strasburg, Germany

The revolutions of 1848 are on the horizon.

Europe is breaking up from within, each piece tugging away from the other.

And the fate of one boy is intricately bound up in those turbulent events.

Philbert was born with a monstrous deformity on his skull, and was quickly spurned by his mother.

Abandoned and alone, he is adopted by a wandering Friar, and he feels at home with the other cast-off spirits.

But his sense of peace is quickly shattered as Germany starts to fall apart.

With taxes increasing, and food sparse, starving peasants are barricading the towns and storming the storehouses of the rich.

And after sheltering a runaway widow, Philbert and his gang are stormed by the soldiers.

But that is just the beginning.

Unknown to Philbert he is to be the trigger for the coming revolution…

But will his actions be for good, or evil?

And will Philbert manage to survive as everything he knows is torn apart?

'Things Fall Apart' is a gripping historical mystery.

'A brilliant story set against a fascinating backdrop.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of 'The Lunar Code'.

Clio Gray lives in the Highlands. She works part time in the local library, and spends the rest of her time writing. She is also the author of ‘Deadly Prospects’.

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

328 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 20, 2014

About the author

Clio Gray has won many awards for her writing, including the Harry Bowling First Novel Award. She has been Man Booker Nominated, Long Listed for the Baileys, and Short Listed for the Cinnamon Prize. Born in Yorkshire, she spent her later childhood in Devon before returning to Yorkshire to go to university, after which she ended up in Scotland. For the past thirty years she has lived in the Highlands where she intends to remain.
Gray eschewed the usual route of marriage, mortgage, children, and instead spent her working life in libraries, filling her home with books and sharing that home with her dogs.
When she gets a few days off you can find her in her campervan scooting around the lesser known areas of Scotland and the Highlands that haven’t been brought to ruination by the dreadful tourist push called the NC500.