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Voices
A widowed London sci-fi writer, burdened by guilt from his past, can’t understand why his brilliant ten-year old granddaughter has taken against him. His son attributes her behaviour to the girl’s mother going off with her latest lover. When a neighbour’s body is found in his garden, could this be linked to his guilt... or to the voices emerging from his computer? Voices that inspired his latest novel ‘Voices’ about aliens taking over Earth via the internet. In a tale of murder and child abuse, seen through the eyes of a grandfather, father and child, all is not what it appears to be to the authorities whilst the writer begins to live in the fantasy of his fiction.
294 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 21, 2016
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Oliver Eade
46 books5 followersA doctor who loves to read and write. Lived and worked in London, Southampton and Vermont, USA. Has a Chinese wife, hence his books for adults and children about China. Family also in Texas and Switzerland. Also involved in charity work for AIDS sufferers in Subsaharan Africa and local children's hospital. Writes short stories, novels and drama.
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April 27, 2016
This is Oliver Eade’s second adult novel and the location is totally different from his first, A Single Petal. A Single Petal took place in the Tang Dynasty of Ancient China while his latest novel is partly a futuristic story set in modern day London. Eade explores the frightening possibility of an alien takeover of Earth and, on another level, the equally disturbing world of sexual abuse, child pornography and murder. The settings for both novels may be worlds apart but the themes are strikingly similar. Both novels focus on family relationships, in particular those between a teenage daughter and her father and in the case of Voices, a grandfather. The story begins with Simon, a grandfather and a science fiction writer at work on his new novel. He is distracted by mysterious voices coming through his computer as he attempts to write this novel which is about saving the world from an alien takeover via the Internet using ‘Dark Energy.’
Simon has a ten year old granddaughter, Lisa who has turned against him because of the lies that her mother, Helen told about him. Simon’s daughter-in-law, Helen is a nymphomaniac. She ran off with a very unsavoury character, a photographer named Stefan. Simon’s son, Jamie stutters. Simon’s neighbours are having an affair and there’s a murder to solve. Simon is framed for the murder having discovered the body of the neighbour’s wife in the garden and therefore according to the police, the main suspect.
The character I liked the most was Russian widow, Katya who befriends Simon and confronts the police with the true facts. Katya is a powerful mother figure. She contrasts with the dark character that is Lisa’s own mother, Helen.
There is so much to come to terms with in this novel and I found some of the descriptions of the unsavoury aspects of adult human behaviour so compelling that I had to put the book aside for a few moments before continuing to read. This is the mark of a true story teller and Eade has achieved that in this novel. His writing is as diverse as human experience. He dips easily and effortlessly into the fantasy world and then just as dramatically, catapults the reader into the real and sometimes, frightening seen world. Some of the issues that are explored in this novel do not make for easy reading but it is definitely a book to read. From the first page until the last questions are asked of us. How do we come to terms with sexual depravity whose evil is evident in every strata of society? Is the Dark Energy which holds the world together, Love or in a secular world, even God? At the end of the day, is Love the only thing that will save us from the dark side?
Simon has a ten year old granddaughter, Lisa who has turned against him because of the lies that her mother, Helen told about him. Simon’s daughter-in-law, Helen is a nymphomaniac. She ran off with a very unsavoury character, a photographer named Stefan. Simon’s son, Jamie stutters. Simon’s neighbours are having an affair and there’s a murder to solve. Simon is framed for the murder having discovered the body of the neighbour’s wife in the garden and therefore according to the police, the main suspect.
The character I liked the most was Russian widow, Katya who befriends Simon and confronts the police with the true facts. Katya is a powerful mother figure. She contrasts with the dark character that is Lisa’s own mother, Helen.
There is so much to come to terms with in this novel and I found some of the descriptions of the unsavoury aspects of adult human behaviour so compelling that I had to put the book aside for a few moments before continuing to read. This is the mark of a true story teller and Eade has achieved that in this novel. His writing is as diverse as human experience. He dips easily and effortlessly into the fantasy world and then just as dramatically, catapults the reader into the real and sometimes, frightening seen world. Some of the issues that are explored in this novel do not make for easy reading but it is definitely a book to read. From the first page until the last questions are asked of us. How do we come to terms with sexual depravity whose evil is evident in every strata of society? Is the Dark Energy which holds the world together, Love or in a secular world, even God? At the end of the day, is Love the only thing that will save us from the dark side?
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