Mainlander

The Thrilling Debut From Comedy Writer And Stand Up Star, Will Smith - A Novel About Loneliness, About Not Belonging And About The Corroding Effects Of Keeping Secrets. 'john Le Carre Meets 'middlemarch' Independent Jersey 1987, And The Storm Clouds Are Gathering Over Colin Bygate, A Mainlander Married To An Islander. When He First Arrived, He Fell For The Island's Heathered Headlands And Golden Coves, Its Winding Lanes And Sweeping Tides, Its Background Hum Of Frenchness. But Now He Strikes A Dissonant Note. Sitting On An Outcrop Stewing After A Row With His Wife, Schoolteacher Colin Spots One Of His Pupils Near The Edge Of A Cliff. Worried That The Boy May Have Intended To Jump, He Drives Him Home, Hoping That His Gloomy Imagination Was Playing Tricks. But When The Boy Fails To Turn Up To School The Next Day, Colin Feels Duty-bound To Track Him Down, Pitting Him Against The Island Establishment Who Would Rather There Was A Little Less Noise Around This Particular Absence. A Web Of Characters Is Spun Around This Mystery, Each With His Or Her Own Secrets. In Jersey, Where Everyone Knows Everyone Else's Business, You Must Become Your Own Island. Jersey 1987. Stormskyene samler seg over Colin Bygate. Han sitter på en odde mens han funderer over konas stevnemøter med Rob de la Haye, en eplekjekk hotellsjef som er alt det Colin ikke er. Mens hans sitter der oppdager Colin en elev helt ute på kanten av klippen. Han er redd gutten skal hoppe, og han får kjørt eleven hjem i håp om at gutten vil komme på bedre tanker. Men når gutten ikke dukker opp på skolen dagen etter, føler Colin et ansvar om å spore han opp. Men det skal vise seg at beboerne på øya helst skulle sett at det ble litt mindre støy rundt guttens forsvinning. "Mainlander" er den britiske stand-up stjernen Will Smiths debutroman, og er en historie om ensomhet, og konsekvensene av å holde på hemmeligheter The thrilling debut from comedy writer and stand up star, Will Smith – a novel about loneliness, about not belonging and about the corroding effects of keeping secrets. 'John le Carré meets 'Middlemarch' Independent 'We're on an island. Know what that means? Surrounded by water. No way off it. So he's not really missing. He's just not where he's supposed to be.' Jersey 1987.An island wrapped in secrets.A community simmering with rivalries.A marriage on the rocks.An outsider, resented by locals.A missing boy, seen on the edge of a cliff. And a Great Storm brewing.