Cautious, A Boat Adrift: Working Class Writing in the 21st Century with Tommy Sissons (Acid Horizon on Zer0/Repeater)

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As a failing journalist cares for his alcoholic grandfather,
remnants of the elderly man’s long-buried stories resurface and
drive him to an obsessional search for truth.

“The land of men is an untouched one. It is the companionship of
quiet. It is so many darkened boats, heading their own way, in
the night.”

Leeds, 2017. Disaffected journalist Fred Whitby and his mother
visit Grandad Norman following the death of his callous second
wife, Brenda. Norman has relapsed into alcoholism. Brenda’s
daughter and her husband have invaded the house.

Whilst writing a diary in attempt to revive his creativity, Fred
finds himself cast adrift in his family history, trying
frantically to piece together the fragmented memories,
half-truths, secrets and mythologies that lie therein.
Disappearances. Post-war protection rackets. An IRA bomb plot.
Romantic rivalries. The kidnap of a traitorous miner.

As spectres of the past meet with the looming presence of a
post-truth future, Fred must navigate the illogical and
unprovable stories of his grandfather and come to terms with the
absence of irrecoverable voices in his quest for whatever truth
and meaning remains.

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