A Bang on the Head - Couverture souple

Stebbings, Will

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798231072477

Editeur : Will Stebbings, 2021

Synopsis

Rob Lennard wakes up in a hospital bed. It is the year 2019, but Rob is convinced it is 1979. The last thing he remembers is getting ready to meet his girlfriend Kate, but now he is married to Julie who is in her late fifties and can talk to their son face to face on a device that resembles the communicators in Star Trek. He has suffered mild concussion after a garden accident, but doctors are unable to explain the loss of forty years of memories and do not offer any treatment.
The world outside of the hospital is like science fiction to him - Satnavs; 'phones that can take high quality photographs without film; the internet; satellite television; cars with cameras. Even people's attitudes have changed. His wife warns him of words that are no longer acceptable and he struggles with mundane activities and conversations.

To make matters worse, he doesn't even live in Norfolk anymore. His wife and family seek to find experiences that will jog his memory and restore him to his old self, but nothing seems to work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Will Stebbings is rapidly gaining critical acclaim for his insightful novels, encapsulating nostalgia for the sixties and seventies, whilst adding a fair smattering of humour. His first novel 'Off the Mark' received so many plaudits that he felt compelled to write 'Further Off the Mark' which continues the rites of passage for its main character, Mark Barker, who left an all-boys' school with no experience of girls or the adult world in general. 'Completely Off the Mark' is about Mark's further exploits in the early 1970s, while 'Mark's Out of Eleven' takes us back to 1960 and his days at an all boys' Grammar School, when educational institutions were as much about discipline as they were education.
'Tess of the Dormobiles' is a comedy thriller and is not part of the Mark Barker quadrilogy, being set firmly in the 21st century and featuring a female lead character.
Will's love of soul music features heavily in his work, where he often used sixties and seventies soul records as the chapter titles.
All of Will's novels are set predominately in Norfolk, which is where he was born and raised.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Will Stebbings
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798231072477
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible