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Real Life is

Elsewhere

Mark Stewart-Jones

KEY SELLING POINTS
A literary novel that seeks to discuss identity and falling in love in an original and sometimes quixotic, often
poetic way.
An entirely original and unique take on love, ageing and the process of writing.
A novel about someone struggling to write a novel.

"For I saw in you the mongrel angel that saw in me the same "

Following a bereavement, Mark, a disillusioned middle-aged writer seeking something like enlightenment (or
an epiphany, he’s not sure), travels to Charleville in Northern France to visit the hometown of his hero, the poet
Rimbaud. As he wanders Mark muses on the nature of obsession and how our heroes might be no more than
projections of our deepest needs and fears. He also focuses on a famous line of Rimbaud’s – “je est un autre”.
“I is another”.

When he meets a local woman there is an instant connection and their conversation continues as they traverse
the streets together over 24 hours. But something strange is happening. Immediately Anne knows his story and
the events of his life. She knows his mind. Has he found his autre?

We follow them as Mark narrates in his head the book he will never write, with interjections from characters
brought to life by his imagination … and often against his will.

Real Life is Elsewhere is an entirely original, unique take on love, ageing and the process of writing.

Mark Stewart-Jones has written four novels (published by The Book Guild). For many years he has combined
writing with being the primary carer for his disabled daughter Sophie. He has also written graphic novels and
the story of the first eighteen years of Sophie's life in Daughter.

Comparative title: 9781909716018 Roll 'em Mister Bones (April 2014)

Publication Date: 28th January 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805141938
Thema subject category: FBA – Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
paperback 216 x 138 mm 232 pp Portrait Author location: Canterbury

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