Dive

by Bradford Middleton

Jack is in a rut and has been for some time but ultimately it is a rut he has grown used too, even fond of. Aged thirty-nine he lives in a small room in a nice area of south-east London. We meet him on a Saturday and things seem to be going just fine until that it he tries to go out to the pub. It is then it all starts getting weird; alien abductions and attacks on public buildings but most bizarrely of all a woman who finds Jack sexually attractive. Clare changes his life forever and suddenly Jack's life is moving. Within three weeks they decide to go to Brighton and everything seems to be just perfect for the first time in a long time with the realisation that Clare and Lisa share everything including him. It is however at his fortieth birthday party when Kerry, his only friend at work, falls for Lisa that his live begins to unravel.

Genres: Fiction

254 pages, Paperback

Published November 6, 2015

About the author

Bradford Middleton was born in south-east London during the long hot summer of 1971 but didn’t begin writing poetry until he landed in Brighton in 2007. Knowing no one and with no money he holed-up in his room and began writing and in 2011, just before he turned 40, he was published for the first time ever by the magnificent Mad Swirl. In the ten years since he’s been published all over the literary underground, on blogs, in zines & journals and in four individual chapbooks from three different publishers and read his words to crowds up and down the country. He has just finished his second novel All the Way to the End of the Line which he is currently seeking representation for. Interested? Get in touch here or on Twitter @BradfordMiddle5.