In For the Love of Roman readers are introduced to Roman. Roman is a young man who has a heavy weight pressing him down. He has been unable to find love and he feels that the only way out of his loveless life is to end it.
But is there a female counterpart to him? A young female who is also searching for love?
His longings for love take him on a train journey through Europe. In fact at a particular railway station he acts as a catalyst which, mystically, brings two different dimensions of reality together.
The reader is dropped directly into this parallel dimension in a war-ravaged Yugoslavia where young men by their thousands are imprisoned in trains and being taken toward certain death.
One of these men is Drago who is desperate to live, who has two daughters who are fighting to let the world learn of what is happening to their fathers and the other men who are in the same dreadful situation.
But what linked Roman to this situation? Was he also doomed to die? Or could he be brought back from the brink? If so, how? By whom?
This is a very powerful first novel and it deftly tells the stories of two different worlds. It is a story that is both horrific, yet also filled with love and hope.
I hope to see more novels from Philip in the future.
It is published by The Book guild at £8.99.
Thank you for your lovely words.
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