Thirteen - Couverture rigide

Beaumont, Sebastian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1905802021 ISBN 13 : 9781905802029

Editeur : Myrmidon Books Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Thirteen is not a number, it is a state of mind.

Thirteen is the story of Stephen Bardot, a taxi driver working on the night shift in Brighton. He works such long shifts that he is often driving while exhausted, and it is then that he starts to experience major alterations to his perception of reality. People start to take lifts in his cab who know things they shouldn t, and who ultimately may not even be real, although the question of what constitutes reality forms one of the basic themes of the novel.

He regularly gives lifts to Valerie beautiful, haunting, but terminal from 13 Wish Road to her positive thinking classes at the Cornerstone Community Centre on Palmeira Square. When he is no longer asked to collect her, he fears that she is dead, and queries this with Sal, one of the night operators. Her response turns Stephen s world upside down.

But Stephen, she tells him, there is no such address. Wish Road doesn t have a number thirteen.

She s right. Wish Road s odd numbers are 7, 9, 11, 11a, 15, 17... And number 11a looks totally different from the house he thinks of as number Thirteen. So where has he been collecting Valerie from all this time? A house that doesn t exist?

As time passes, the world gets weirder. People appear (and disappear) who know far too much about Stephen and his past, and who lure him further and further into the twilight world of Thirteen. But if he asks any questions, he gets hurt. Ultimately, he decides, for the sake of both his safety and his sanity, he must walk away.

But Thirteen has no intention of letting him go.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sebastian Beaumont was born and raised in Scotland and graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University. He now lives in Brighton where he works in private practice as a psychotherapeutic counsellor. He received an Arts Council Bursary to write Thirteen, a tale of mystery and the human psyche. His second novel, The Juggler is also published by Myrmidon Books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Myrmidon Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905802021
• ISBN 13: 9781905802029
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible