Chapter 1
At birth, Mother called me Travesty. Travesty, a name meaning disaster. I could have given me a name which stood for something like great warrior, defender of the faith, or beautiful boy. She could have named me after somebody famous, but no, she called me Travesty. To Mother, I was a disaster. This was the world I entered. But, I should not have entered. Between you and me and the gatepost, I wasn’t meant to arrive. I was an accident. A disastrous accident, a travesty.
This is the second novel from Roberta Aarons, following the success of her first book ‘My Grandfather’s False Teeth’.
After Emma, a successful career woman, steals the husband of her younger sister Ann, a comfortable stay-at-home mother, they are estranged for many years. Reunited again at his funeral and carried away by the emotion of the moment, they impulsively decide to go on holiday together.
Hemmie Martin is a crime writer based in England. Her last novel, ‘In The Light of Madness‘, was the first in a trilogy. We are delighted to bring you an EXCLUSIVE excerpt from the next book ‘Rightful Owner’.
From debut author Hayden Bradford comes a rip-roaring, satirical yarn.
Travesty is an unashamedly hilarious tale of a bloke so hard done by in his life he could only have been born from the imagination of another bloke.
The Unspeakable by Peter Anderson is being officially released on September 20th and we have had an advance copy to read and review. Here follows my review…
The Unspeakable is a truly immense, intense, somewhat gut-wrenching, yet eloquently written piece of literature.
