A death.
A missing person.
A spring-coiled catastrophe.
Daniel, an expatriate Australian who has lived in Paris for more than forty years, has made a mess of his life and is trying to atone, to become the ‘good man’ his friend Marcelline believes him to be. But the quotidian world has been tipped out of balance and Daniel makes an error of judgment that places at risk everything he values.
Set in the Latin Quarter of Paris over six days in the winter of 2012, Daniel’s story is woven through with interconnecting vignettes that reach back to war and occupation, the revolutionary sixties, riots in a Catalan town in the south of France, a grassroots movement to make visible the invisible homeless. The personal stitched into, and inseparable from, the political.
Coming August 2026, Upswell Publishing
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