Taking his recently deceased son's place on a group holiday he'd planned with his college mates, a distraught snd grief-twisted father hopes to get to know more about the lost child he'd been rather estranged from, only to start suspecting his son's friends had in fact murdered him, which ends with the vengeful, sleuthing father setting fire to the holiday villa with all the innocent college students inside.
@fmf saidGoing AWOL from his British Army unit in Java in 1946, having been spooked by messy shootouts with Indonesian independence fighters who thought Britain was sneakily doing the Dutch's bidding as they prepared to retake control of their tropical colony, Geoffrey flees eastward across Java, Bali, Lombok, Flores, Sumbawa, Sulawesi and beyond, having adventures all the way courtesy of the motley myriad of tiny republics that were being declared and quickly crushed by the Jakarta regime in those chaotic and deadly years, before finally fighting and dying in the far east of the archipelago alongside Ambonese rebels striving to assert their independence from the new state of Indonesia, having turned down the chance to escape to safety and freedom in a ship heading for Darwin in Australia.
The story that your novel conveys encapsulated in a single sentence, please.
@fmf said- after a number of years he realized that leading a balanced life is healthier and more sustainable than the headlong pursuit of being number one, and began to organize his life around that idea.
Not the opening sentence this time.
The story that your novel conveys encapsulated in a single sentence, please.
Derek Pottersby had been the full-time, all-expenses-paid, grounds keeper for the Balls Green Crockett Club, Balls Green, Kent, England for 35 blissful years; 35 blissful years of clipping the lawn edges with scissors, the brand new high tensile top-of -the-range scissors which now protruded from the right eye socket of Gerald, the new chair (soon to be pronounced ex-chair) of the Balls Green Crockett Club … and keeper of the Club purse.
@fmf saidNow thats a good one. Except the college students were in fact plotting to murder
Taking his recently deceased son's place on a group holiday he'd planned with his college mates, a distraught snd grief-twisted father hopes to get to know more about the lost child he'd been rather estranged from, only to start suspecting his son's friends had in fact murdered him, which ends with the vengeful, sleuthing father setting fire to the holiday villa with all the innocent college students inside.
him. The father gradually realises that the students are onto him and he is next on the death list. Camping in the middle of nowhere, 9 against 1 the father must........
Oh sorry, its your story. Got a bit carried away.
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rookie falls in love with this beautiful voice but when he finds out it's a castrato he is faced with an agonizing decision, his manhood or the voice he loves
Various people, who are doing things in different settings with different goals discover that their paths are destined to cross creating drama, conflict, intrigue and ultimately resolution after an intense and thought provoking twist with moments that walk the thin line between pain and ecstasy and the involvement of a herring.
(Still working on this and may drop the herring idea.)
@relentless-red saidIs the herring Red ?
Various people, who are doing things in different settings with different goals discover that their paths are destined to cross creating drama, conflict, intrigue and ultimately resolution after an intense and thought provoking twist with moments that walk the thin line between pain and ecstasy and the involvement of a herring.
(Still working on this and may drop the herring idea.)
