Couldn’t resist a quick post about this.
It’s now exactly three months since Chris delivered the manuscript of his new novel The Adjacent (out next summer). In the weeks since then, an increasing number of sea- and ship-related books have been appearing on desks and bedside tables here, and last night I read the first three pages of the first draft of what will be Chris’s next book, The Mariners.
Anything more different from The Adjacent is difficult to imagine.
It is so good! The most intriguing, inviting and alluring beginning of a story I have read in ages.
To say I’m impatient to read more is putting it mildly…