Requiem for Private Hughes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517354176)

Vendor: Chip Tolson
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Requiem for Private Hughes

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Requiem for Private Hughes

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Format: Paperback
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Art student Archie Middlebrook, on national service in Malaya, is wounded in a terrorist ambush; his friend, Geraint Hughes, is killed in the explosion. Home in Somerset with his war-widowed mother, Dorothy, and family helper, Ivy, Archie won't speak of events in Malaya. He immerses himself in manual labour for their elderly farmer neighbour, 'Zed' Vellacott, before having a wild, yet doomed, sexual coming-of-age with Maggie, his mother's god-daughter. His artistic ambitions abandoned, Archie works into middle age in a department store, until he is made redundant at the hands of a young business colleague, promoted accountant Lorna. Years later, Archie lives alone, remaining friends with Ivy, his childhood minder, when Lorna dramatically re-enters the scene ... with life-changing consequences.

Author: Chip Tolson
ISBN-10: 151735417X
ISBN-13: 9781517354176
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.08w x 0.61d
By Chip Tolson
By Chip Tolson
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Since student days and being one of the last wave of national servicemen, in the army in Germany, I have worked in the ship-owning industry in Liverpool, the Far East and Edinburgh. After thirty-five years I re-directed my energies to writing. I gained a degree in creative writing and have enjoyed working with writers' groups in Somerset where I now live. I have twice won the Yeovil Prize short story competition and won the the Somerset Film Scriptwriting Competition in 2014/15. Some of my micro plays have been performed in Yorkshire and Brooklyn, New York. 2015 sees the publication of my first novel - Requiem for Private Hughes. Further novels are in the pipeline.

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