Eternal City

by Mark Thompson

Life can change in a split second, and so it does for twenty-eight-year-old photographer Finn Chambers. One careless decision at the Cimitero Acattolico in the eternal city of Rome, finds him falling head first onto Shelley’s tomb, to his death.

He awakes to a beautiful afterlife surrounded by long-dead poets, artists and thinkers, including Shelley, Keats, Gramsci, Sanchez and the delightful Lady Mary von Haas, and these luminaries test Finn’s values and principles in a way they have never been tested before.

Uncomfortable truths require honest assessment when the twenty-first century’s lust for celebrity, drugs, and fifteen
minutes of fame, is questioned by others from centuries past but his new life finds much in common with his previous life, with love, art, sex, music, humour and irreverence, all experienced on this different and fascinating plane.

For Finn Chambers there is life after death – and it’s a life worth living.

293 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 8, 2022

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Reviews

[Keith Pearlman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Both highly original and thought provoking. It’s also very well written. I’d really recommend this book. Great read!

[Joseph Rimmington · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my fist introduction to Mark Thompson, and what an introduction. Eternal City is a fabulously novel concept, exploring themes of life after death and life’s true worth. Contemplative, moving, poetic - it cannot be recommended enough.

[Mark Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful novel.... A classic for our time...

On reading this again, I see more within its pages.... Every read brings more beautiful images, and yet more life from the characters portrayed... 5 stars every time... If you read only one book this year, make it this one...

[Penny · Rating 1 out of 5]

Interesting concept but didn't go anywhere

[Jess Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing read. So insightful and poetic.