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News posted 08/1/09
David Gaffney: Never Never
Rosehill Theatre, Moresby, Whitehaven, Cumbria CA28 6SE
Thursday 26 February 2009 at 7.30pm
Tickets costing £6.50 (Concessions £5) available from the Box
Office on 01946 692422
Join us at Rosehill for an evening with author David Gaffney as
he reads extracts from his West Cumbria set novel Never Never,
takes questions from the audience and signs copies of his book.
About the book: Never Never
Eric’s a debt counsellor in Cleator Moor, Cumbria. Unbeknown to
his desperate clients, who are harassed daily by loan sharks, Eric
is experiencing a deeper financial crisis than any of them - and
his ability to juggle is beginning to fail him. His partner
Charlotte is oblivious to this, and also to Eric's jaunts to
Manchester to visit his childhood sweetheart.
She does begin to notice, however, when photographs of caravans
bearing oblique one-word messages arrive in the post, Eric is
stalked by a figure dressed as a lemon, their cat is poisoned, and
a sinister development officer threatens his livelihood. Meanwhile,
he hatches an outrageous plan to run a scam with hapless client
Doreen - and Gaffney's uneasily jocular, brilliantly observed
caper descends into full-on grisly nightmare.
About the Author:
David Gaffney is the author of the short story collections
Sawn-off Tales, and Aromabingo. Never Never is his much awaited
first novel. His work has been described as truly 21st
century,
stories for a fragmented and fragmenting world; and required
reading for anybody trying to make sense of modern Britain.
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