Tears of a Shadow

Author: Silver, Oliver

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 28 October 2023 by The Book Guild Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 312 pages
128 x 199 x 25 | 348g

I am not my thoughts. My thoughts are not me.

Jonathan Stetson’s life has not turned out the way he envisaged. Just shy of forty, his limited theatre work has dried up and he finds himself alone, broke and depressed, waiting tables just to get by. Consumed by addiction and self-loathing, he attempts to reconcile with his estranged and highly successful older brother in a bid to get his life and career back on track.

When his advances are met with resistance, Jonathan spirals further into his own dysfunction and twisted sense of reality, developing an obsessive interest in his brother’s family, especially his young nephew, as he struggles to come to terms with a world that continues to reject him…