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Tuesday 10 December 2019

Verbatim

In Verbatim Andrew Hill introduces his readers to two different writers.

There's Carol, who is an intelligent woman, known for being sensible, who is in her late 20s. She has her life together and is currently employed as a civil servant.

Grant, however, most certainly does not have his life together. Since his childhood Grant has suffered from mental health issues. Sadly these were just swept under the carpet and, as much as possible, merely ignored instead of being worked with and treated.

Grant is working as a barman and intends to get his life trued around.

Grant is looking for a publishing house to publish his debut novel, which he has titled 'Dead Letter Perfect, but after being rejected by publisher after publisher and by a curious twist of fate, he learns that another writer, a woman called Carol Green (who he has never heard of before now) is publishing a novel with exactly the same title.

But would it ever be possible for two writers, working totally independently of each other, with no prior knowledge of the existence of the other, to write a novel with not only the same title but with every detail and every word exactly, precisely the same?

Totally unaware of Grant's discovery, Carol's life continues as normal, but after the rejection of his novel, Grant's life continues to spiral out of control.

And when they finally meet things take a very, very dramatic turn for the worst.

It's a gripping a very moving novel and will make a very thought provoking Christmas gift for the writer or budding writer in your life.

It's published by The Book Guild at £8.99.

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