Second Novel from former student
Congratulations to former student Clive Edwards, whose second book LOST IN A YELLOW WOOD comes out in September. It’s a thriller with a supernatural twist:
Seeing your doppelganger is supposed to be a harbinger of death. But what if it’s the doppelganger that’s trying to kill you? David Lorrimer is accused by the police of viciously attacking his wife Kate and leaving her in a coma. Then he’s terrified to see out of her hospital window a figure looking up at him with his own face. David fears he’s having a breakdown, but the doppelganger appears again, this time with a woman who looks like his first girlfriend. Then he sees another doppelganger that may be connected to a former lover. Can he solve the mystery before his wife dies and the police arrest him for her murder?
Clive was on the Advanced Writers Workshops in 2022-3 led by Laura Wilkinson. He says the course “made an enormous impact on my writing and gave me invaluable encouragement and the confidence to push on”.
Since he finished the course, he self-published his first book, a thriller with a supernatural twist, THE DAY YOU DIE. It’s about a former soldier who can look in anyone’s eyes and know the day they are going to die and how. He sees the imminent death of a young girl but should he save her? And how can he turn down MI5 when they find out what he can do and want him to track down suicide bombers? The book has been described as “Andy McNab meets Stephen King’s The Dead Zone”.
Clive is a retired journalist and TV producer from Lewes. Over the course of his career, he won a Royal Television Society Award for Panorama: The Norway Channel which told the inside story of the Israeli-Palestinian peace deal brokered by Norwegian diplomats, and a BAFTA for the documentary series Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain. For six years he was the Executive Editor of the BBC’s TV Current Affairs Department.
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