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Perpetual Light
It's a miserable day in Salford. Local mob boss Fernaghan is being buried, following a shootout with armed police. His two enforcers attend his lavish funeral along with thousands of others.
They look at the congragation and wonder - who grassed on Fernaghan?
Their search takes them deeper and deeper into Manchester's criminal underbelly and leads them to a shocking conclusion.
Thomas Garvey paints a dark, vivid and brutal picture of Manchester in the first story of the Groundwork series.
They look at the congragation and wonder - who grassed on Fernaghan?
Their search takes them deeper and deeper into Manchester's criminal underbelly and leads them to a shocking conclusion.
Thomas Garvey paints a dark, vivid and brutal picture of Manchester in the first story of the Groundwork series.
48 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 29, 2018
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Alexander Garvey Holbrook
3 books8 followersAlexander Garvey Holbrook is an author and teacher from Manchester, England. He lives and works there with his wife and son. In 2019, he graduated from the prestigious Manchester Writing School's MA Creative Writing programme with Distinction. He has a crippling addiction to Yorkshire Tea and secondhand books.
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September 30, 2018
Garvey's Perpetual Light is, in every respect, difficult for me to put into a conceptual framework (could it be that there's a whole genre out there that's not familiar to me?). Is it hard boiled fiction or literary? It's longer than a short story but shorter than a novella. But then, this is the first entry in a series, so maybe a clearer more defining view will come into focus with later entries.
What I'm sure of is that Garvey's is an original voice. The staccato prose practically pulses, almost puts a finger in your eye. The images are dark and menacing and lethal. Descriptions of violence are visceral. On the underside of Manchester, violence begets violence and there's no forgiveness to be found. A powerful read but dark, very dark.
What I'm sure of is that Garvey's is an original voice. The staccato prose practically pulses, almost puts a finger in your eye. The images are dark and menacing and lethal. Descriptions of violence are visceral. On the underside of Manchester, violence begets violence and there's no forgiveness to be found. A powerful read but dark, very dark.
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