My first novel - "Of Human Bondage - in a digital age"

Here is a preview of the back cover of my first novel which is soon to be published.

It will be available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

 The pre-internet era is drawing to a close, and ambitious smooth-talking eighteen year old Martin falls desperately  in love with the captivating and upper class Belgian girl Isabelle - but sadly her strict Catholic upbringing prevents her from dating non-Catholics. Instead, an intense and unusual friendship develops into an unbreakable bond - which continues long after their respective marriages to Beatrice, an eccentric lapsed Catholic, and Viscount Étienne, a gentle hard working aristocrat. 

Martin has a major  life-changing heart operation which makes him re-evaluate who the most important people in his life are, and finding Beatrice’s renewed Catholicism difficult, Isabelle becomes his number One. 

Meanwhile Isabelle starts having marital difficulties and confides only in Martin, her best male friend. Smartphones and the Covid lockdowns give them the opportunity to message and ring each other from their different countries, and knowing she has an intense hold over him -  all their past feelings stir up, and Martin falls hopelessly in love with her all over again. Beatrice is blissfully and naively unaware, until a sixth sense tells her that something is grotesquely wrong with her marriage. But what? 

Sweeping over four decades from the 1980s and into the complexities of the digital age, and  with the growing phenomena of emotional affairs, the three characters are woven into a tortuous  love triangle where Martin finds himself navigating his divided loyalties amid broken hearts.