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AN OATH BETRAYED

Mark Seaman

ISBN 978-1-83574-048-4

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Publication: 27 SEPTEMBER 2024
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ISBN: 9781835740484
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 448 pp
Thema: FV Historical Fiction

Author location: Gloucestershire
Book location: London
Comparative title: 9781912083091 A Corner of My Heart

• Set in London’s dockyards in the early 1900’s,
An Oath Betrayed is a gripping historical novel
that spans into World War 1.
• Follows the unbreakable friendship between
Harry and Karl as they find themselves on
opposing sides of the Front Line.
• An Oath Betrayed is the third novel by Mark
Seaman, the author of, A Corner of My Heart.

Growing up together in the early 1900’s in the London

Mark Seaman, married with three children, is a successful radio and Docklands, Harry and Karl forge an unbreakable friendship.
With their fathers working as dockhands, both families struggle
television broadcaster, playwright, and author, with several award- to survive on low wages and poor living conditions.
winning manuscripts produced both nationally and internationally. An
Oath Betrayed is his second publication with The Book Guild, Facing unemployment and destitution following a dock strike
following the critical success of A Corner of My Heart. Details of in Germany, Karl’s parents moved to England for
Mark’s career can be found at www.mark-seaman.com and his play a better life, hoping to raise their son in an environment of love
manuscripts are available through and security. However, Harry’s homelife is dominated by
www.lazybeescripts.co.uk violence and drunken cruelty inflicted by his father. Shared
dreams of a life far away from the grime and deprivation of the
shipyards see the two friends swear a lifetime oath of
allegiance to one another.

As time passes, the boys grow ever closer until a horrific
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to Germany, while Harry joins the British Army. By a strange
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Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change Will memories of their childhood pledge prove enough to
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them been broken forever?