Tripping is a surreal black comedy drama that looks at the lives of four friends and how the ripple effect of an event at university comes back to haunt them over a decade later. Samantha arrives in London for a reunion with three university friends, but she is hiding a secret with a ten-year history that has touched and irrevocably changed the lives of everyone, even if they don't quite know it yet. The story charts the lives of the four girls who at university have the world at their feet. Ten years later they have become women searching for the most elusive of dreams.happiness. A modern fable that explores the complexities of life's most intricate paradox, balancing the mundane world of shattered dreams with secrets, lies and deception. Tripping is a step into a modern day wonderland. The events of a hot summer week in May during their reunion will change their lives forever. Tripping is the second novel from Darren E Laws.
Darren E. Laws is a British author and publisher whose work prowls the darker edges of crime and psychological suspense. He is the founder of Caffeine Nights Publishing, an independent press dedicated to crime, horror, and steampunk fiction with a strong sense of place and character.
Darren’s novels explore damaged people, moral grey areas, and the thin line between justice and obsession. Alongside his own writing, he has spent years championing new and established voices in dark fiction, helping to bring dozens of titles to readers who like their stories unsettling, human, and hard to shake.
He lives in Kent and divides his time between writing, publishing, and building platforms that celebrate storytelling and place.