"13 FRAGMENTS" by Colin Newcombe is published

First book in a trilogy each set in different eras with characters grappling with significant aspects of their lives. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) September 05, 2016 - "13 FRAGMENTS" by Colin Newcombe, ISBN #978-1944156299, About the Book: Lying semi-conscious in the road and doubting his chances of survival, a middle-aged biker examines his life but his traumatised mind can only retrieve thirteen fragments of disjointed memory. Did he ever recapture that sense of identity and belonging he knew as a young man? Was it a justified life? Was there any redemption for the death of his girlfriend? And who is the woman who claims to know the answers?

By avoiding a strictly narrative structure, this novel challenges you to share the confused and fractured memory of the injured man.

Excerpt from the Book:
"I am no longer certain who did these things that I remember doing. Different times, different places, different people. Time and circumstance laid down a sediment, fragments of experience, which gradually pressed the malleable stuff of youth into a different person. That much I know, but along the way I had lost sight of the certainties of youth, of knowing who I am and where I belong. I could feel a nostalgia for them still lodged within me and I knew I had to find them again so that I could move on beyond the guilt.

She is not impressed. She dismisses becoming a different person as mere sophistry, a conscience on the run to evade the guilt of Anna's death. So it might have been at the outset but not later on. As I grew older I wanted to atone for those failings and to be someone perfectly at ease with my past. Yet, whatever my motive, the experiences I gained along the way did eventually change me into someone else, someone who deserves absolution."

About the Author:
Colin Newcombe graduated from the London School of Economics and during his student days, he worked in an aircraft factory. After graduating, he changed direction and becoming a teacher after a brief spell working in a bank. Finally, he worked for the local council (Cheshire) as a driver until his job disappeared in the cuts, whereupon he began writing novels. As the main character says in the final chapter, "Even if we only have one life, we can still have more than one go at it."

"13 FRAGMENTS" is currently available in paperback from Amazon UK at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/13-Fragments-Colin-Newcombe/dp/1944156291

This novel is also available to purchase and download in e-book format from:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/13-Fragments-Colin-Newcombe-ebook/dp/B01KZ9DD0E

Press/Media Contact Details:
Darin Jewell
Managing Director
The Inspira Group Literary Agency
darin ( @ ) theinspiragroup dot com
tel. 0208 292 5163

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