Books - Novels
HEADS
A zany, humourous story, HEADS relates the adventures of Jazz Doherty, an Irish artist who makes a sacrilegious blunder while painting murals at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Berkeley, California. The parish priest, Fr. Ned Tobin, declares jihad on him and Doherty goes on the run.
As his work at the church develops a cult following of hippies, punks and assorted outsiders, Jazz starves in San Francisco's bohemia. Keeping out of the priest's range, he does odd jobs to get by, planning to leave California as soon as he has the money. While house sitting for a jailed marijuana grower, Jazz discovers a freezer full of money in the basement. He dips into the stash and spends recklessly. He leaves a generous donation at the parochial house for Fr. Ned, but his plan to purify their karma backfires.
SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE
John and Mary Ross are titled Irish gentry with a large estate and a low profile. They have two daughters: Penny, a high-flying banker in Dublin, who has her eye on the family jewels; and the younger Maddy, an unmarried mother, gone eccentric since the birth of her child. Maddy and her son Sam live in the servants’ quarters beside Rossmount House and she caters to the needs of her parents as if atoning for her fall from grace. It is rumoured that the father of Maddy’s son is a monk.
Apart from Lady Rosse’s binges on vodka or gin, Rossmount House is a tranquil place with plenty relics of old decency. Nobody expected the tremors that began when Penny brought home her future husband, Basil Sutton. There was something about Basil that put everything out of kilter.
The story is narrated by Sam, grandson to Lord and Lady Ross.
Simple Twist of Fate is a ‘flash-novel’ or a novelette. It has approx 13.3K words, and is set in 5 chapters.
John and Mary Ross are titled Irish gentry with a large estate and a low profile. They have two daughters: Penny, a high-flying banker in Dublin, who has her eye on the family jewels; and the younger Maddy, an unmarried mother, gone eccentric since the birth of her child. Maddy and her son Sam live in the servants’ quarters beside Rossmount House and she caters to the needs of her parents as if atoning for her fall from grace. It is rumoured that the father of Maddy’s son is a monk.
Apart from Lady Rosse’s binges on vodka or gin, Rossmount House is a tranquil place with plenty relics of old decency. Nobody expected the tremors that began when Penny brought home her future husband, Basil Sutton. There was something about Basil that put everything out of kilter.
The story is narrated by Sam, grandson to Lord and Lady Ross.
Simple Twist of Fate is a ‘flash-novel’ or a novelette. It has approx 13.3K words, and is set in 5 chapters.
