When the Revd Robert Melton first arrives at St Mungo's, his initial enthusiasm quickly turns to despondency - until the biggest jackpot in US lottery history triggers a series of uncanny events that throws him, and the seemingly unconnected lives of people on both sides of the Atlantic, into a vortex of questioning, self-doubt and the search for truth. For all of them, try as they might to escape it, the past remains a constant presence.
From the run-down despair of Robert's dying inner London parish to the yearnings for love and physical contact of the city's social outcasts - and from the money-driven hubris of Manhattan's financial elite to the home-spun wisdom of rural New England - The Other Side of Loss is a modern-day parable of loss and redemption, of despair and triumph, of human weakness and the life-affirming salvation of human strength in all its meanings.
The Other Side of Loss
About Tom Vaughan
United KingdomTom's first book, No Ordinary Experience is based on his experience of owning a chain of travelling discotheques in the 1960s and 70s with his brother. Critically acclaimed The Other Side of Loss is Tom's first novel. Visit his blog here: http://www.tomvaughan.com/#!home/mainPage
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