This literary novel tells an inspirational story about individual spirit, survival, redemption, the need to live free - and dream.?A psychological suspense saga about four impassioned people dealing dangerously with issues and values that trouble us all, primarily love.
I was asked the same question (curiously, I thought) by several pre-publication reviewers: Did an actual event prompt me to write?On the Edge of the Loch.?The answer is yes, a chance encounter with a graceful but mystifying woman whose intensity infuses the novel.
In the story, Lenny,?one of the two main protagonists, was inspired by this woman. The other (Tony) is a driven man, burdened with and hardened by an equally sensational past, now negotiating adult freedom for the first time. Both are obsessed with imagined futures. The Plot No one came to meet Tony MacNeill. After nine years inside that's how he planned it. All he wanted was a life. Not the one that had been taken from him. Not the younger one either. But the life he might have lived, to be who he was meant to become. At fourteen he had lost that, and his boyhood.?
Loner, steely, to stay alive he'd held his own through a surfeit of trouble. Now 27 and free, he has subdued the pain of injustice and is managing through uncertainty,?barely.? It's then that Lenny Quin appears, out of the blue. To him she's an apparition that belongs to fantasy. Too much despair and destruction have marred the years since 'home' faded into jet vapour. But now, by irony, in this tiny seafaring village in western Ireland, the unlikeliest resurrection is looming.
In all his darkness, a woman like Lenny Quin was undreaml#Þ
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