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THE AFTERTHOUGHTS

Stephen Reynolds

ISBN 978-1-916668-65-2

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Publication: 26 APRIL 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668652
Price: £8.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 198 x 127 mm
Extent: 280 pp
Illustrated: None
Thema: FBA Fiction

Author location: Bristol

Comparative title: 9781915352705 Darling Sorrow
(Feb 2023)

• A literary novel following an unnamed narrator
who awakes on a mysterious train he can't
remember boarding where the passengers are
strangely familiar.
• Explores the nature of existence, memory and
whether nurture or nature has a great impact
on a person's life.
Stephen Reynolds began writing with a successful series of travel • The third novel from the author of Darling
books. His debut novel, The Layers, was published in 2021. His Sorrow (The Book Guild, 2023) and The Layers
second, Darling Sorrow, was published by The Book Guild in 2023, (Valley Press, 2021).
exploring themes of love, mental health, and truth. The Afterthoughts
is his third novel and reflects on the nature of existence, memory and In the middle of nowhere, amidst the endless blackness of
nurture vs nature. Stephen lives in Bristol. a forever night, there is a train. Ordinarily it speeds along in
the empty darkness. As much as a train can speed along,
when it has no track to speed upon and no landscape to
speed through. Motion, like time, reason and destination, is
an affectation here.

An unnamed narrator wakes suddenly to find himself in
compartment of a train he cannot remember boarding. His
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