Glasswater Quintet

The Glasswater Quintet

I’m currently engaged in writing a five-novel sequence linked by location and character but set in different decades. The novels take an anti-clockwise trajectory, beginning in the 2000s before moving back in time to the 1970s and the 1940s, then travelling forward once more to the 1990s before reaching a climactic end sometime in the present day. The titles are ON THE EDGE OF WILD WATERTHE GLASS CITADELTHE STONE FOREST, EYE OF THE RUSHES and THE ICE CHANDELIER. The first four novels are completed and available to buy. The fifth and final volume is underway.

Loss of the natural world and a spiritual connection to it are major themes, as is the intrusion of the psychic and the supernatural into ordinary lives governed not always by reason but by imagination and a deep, instinctive awareness of the ‘other’ in life. The transformative power of illness – both mental and physical – is a recurrent force in a narrative whose events unfold most often through the eyes of children and adolescents. The pervasive influence of the past weighs inescapably on the here and now. The books are part allegory, part naturalistic drama, with a strong element of  psychological mystery, but always based in the real world with recognisable characters with whom I hope the reader will identify. I’m aiming to appeal to a range of readers, from teenage upwards.

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