I'm Writing (another) Book!

But I need some help.

I’ve been playing around with an idea for a novel for a while, and I now figure: why not just go for it. It’s a black comedy crime story, and I’ve written about 15,000 words already and some of the characters are loosely based on people I know (I’ll leave you to work out who.). It’s story of 39 year old Chris, who has just been released from a 20 year prison sentence for a crime at his boarding school, he says he didn’t commit. He came from a very wealthy family, but all that has now disappeared and what was a life of immense privilege has turned into a struggle to survive. He has come back out into a very different world to the one he knew when he was arrested, having lost what he now thinks may have been the best years of his life. He’s had to move in with his chaotic and now impoverished mother, who I hope you’ll find amusing, and has a job at a run down budget store with a cast of characters I also hope you’ll enjoy getting to know.

Six months after his release he starts to receive mysterious letters from someone who says they know ‘the truth’ about his crime. And so Chris, together with his mother and his colleagues, start to follow the clues that lead them all over London and the UK, digging up people and memories from Chris and his family’s past.

I love Mick Heron’s books and i’m definitely going for a bleak, Fleabag kind of vibe with the whole thing, but with a bit of an Absolutely Fabulous twist.

I need help first off, with a name for the book. And then perhaps with some ideas for where the story could go. I’m going to post some of the chapters when i’m ready - to give you an idea of the story - as well as some character interviews so you can get to know some of the people in the book. In time i’ll also share deleted scenes, and some images of the kinds of places I’m referencing. And along the way I’ll share with you how i’m getting on with the writing, and what I’m finding most hard, hoping you might be able to help with some inspiration. I’m excited!