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Liam is haunted by his age and the history it forces upon him. Yet he is also plagued by the need to make more - to generate new memories to recall later, before it gets too late, especially when his wife of over thirty years turns his world upside down, as does the woman he meets in an anonymous hotel dining room. Against a background of domestic parental turmoil, his daughter fights her own demons to try and make sense of her place in a disintegrating family and the wider world. Much of our lives is enslaved by the act of remembering - but sometimes it is about the opposite of that…

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Liam is haunted by his age and the history it forces upon him. Yet he is also plagued by the need to make more - to generate new memories to recall later, before it gets too late, especially when his wife of over thirty years turns his world upside down, as does the woman he meets in an anonymous hotel dining room. Against a background of domestic parental turmoil, his daughter fights her own demons to try and make sense of her place in a disintegrating family and the wider world. Much of our lives is enslaved by the act of remembering - but sometimes it is about the opposite of that…
Autorenporträt
Ian Gouge has been writing for a number of years, alternating between fiction and poetry. He runs the Derby Stanza for the Poetry Society as well as an international monthly poetry group, 'Contextual'. A prize-winning short story writer, he has had both prose and poetry published. In June 2023 he performed his poetic monologue 'Crash' at the Ripon Theatre Festival. A sometime Indie Publisher, he also mentors at public writers' retreats.