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The daughter of a notorious occult magician was, at ten, taken into care and adopted by a militantly evangelical priest. At twenty, she was convinced that she was inevitably damned. At thirty five, she began to have second thoughts. Now, at forty two, she has some harsh words for both God and the Devil, but, one gloomy day in November, she learns that her natural father, the magician, has been stabbed to death by her adoptive one, the priest.
356 pages, Paperback
Published April 16, 2010
About the author
Richard Bruce Clay
8 books16 followersAuthor of the novels 'She's Alone' (2006 - dystopian science fiction), 'Both' (2010 - thriller, supernatural), 'Kingswinford Sunset' (2015 - thriller, supernatural), 'Lydgate' (2020 - science fiction/historical), 'The Croviss Girls' (2024 - thriller/supernatural), the short story 'The Cold' (2012 - science fiction) and the narrative poem 'Grene Woddenesse' (published 2015 in The PoW-WoW Book of Ghost Stories under the name 'Alex Chaplain')
'She's Alone', 'The Cold' and 'Kingswinford Sunset' are available internationally on Amazon Kindle.
Paperback copies of 'Kingswinford Sunset', of 'The Croviss Girls' and of 'Lydgate' are for sale at Saturday Books in Dudley.
Now and again, he reads from his work, very often with music that's more than just 'accompaniment'.
'She's Alone', 'The Cold' and 'Kingswinford Sunset' are available internationally on Amazon Kindle.
Paperback copies of 'Kingswinford Sunset', of 'The Croviss Girls' and of 'Lydgate' are for sale at Saturday Books in Dudley.
Now and again, he reads from his work, very often with music that's more than just 'accompaniment'.
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October 26, 2017
Both is a mish-mash of fundamentalism, child abuse, demonic possession, erotica, Cthulhu, and bus routes. The humour is laced through the novel, though I found it lurched suddenly toward a more overt style as the denouement demanded a quick, neat resolution for the main characters.
This minor (and it is minor) quibble aside, Both is a rich, deep, enjoyable novel, (though some of the voices that tell the story do sound a little similar to each other, despite being different characters, but again this is a minor concern only), and thankfully the novel is something a little different in today’s corporate publishing world. Worth getting for anyone looking to be stretched in their reading matter.
This minor (and it is minor) quibble aside, Both is a rich, deep, enjoyable novel, (though some of the voices that tell the story do sound a little similar to each other, despite being different characters, but again this is a minor concern only), and thankfully the novel is something a little different in today’s corporate publishing world. Worth getting for anyone looking to be stretched in their reading matter.
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