Whitbread First Novel nominated author Patrick Starnes' new release

NEW RELEASE COMING APRIL 5th, 2018

We reap what we sow.

A portrait of a modern family in crisis, a moving love story and a chilling narrative of revenge, A Perfect Sentence moves swiftly from London through Florence, the South of France and Morocco and ends dramatically in Barcelona's cosmopolitan Barri Gotic.

Kier Buchan, a fifty-something Londoner who has recently been made redundant by the Open University, is disaffected and wryly bitter. He is the father of brainy Charlie who is heading for graduate school in America and of teenager Cat who is heading nowhere. His cool, sensible wife Fran feels his disquiet but cannot connect. Kier recounts his role in the break-up of his family and an entanglement in an inappropriate relationship with a much younger woman which he dares to hope will lead to an escape from his old self.

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About the author

I was born in Montreal and studied Philosophy and English Literature in Canada before doing a master's thesis on the novels of Samuel Beckett at Cambridge. I have travelled widely and at one time or another have lived in the United States, Germany, France, Greece, Spain and England. I have worked variously as an aid administrator, journalist, freelance researcher and college lecturer. I currently live in Italy with my wife Christine and dogs Mac and Mia.