• A Lonely Man

  • By: Chris Power
  • Narrated by: Alan Turton
  • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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A Lonely Man

By: Chris Power
Narrated by: Alan Turton
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Robert is a struggling writer living in Berlin with his wife and two young daughters. One night he meets Patrick, an enigmatic stranger with a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch - recently found hanged - who is now being followed. But is he really in danger? Patrick's life strikes Robert as a fabrication, but one that comes to obsess him. He decides to use the other man, and his story.... As his association with Patrick hurtles towards tragedy, Robert must decide: are actual events the only things that give a story life, and are some stories too dangerous to tell?

An elegant and atmospheric twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man is a novel of shadows, of the search for identity and the elastic nature of truth.

©2021 Chris Power (P)2021 W F Howes
Literary Fiction Suspense
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Critic reviews

"A remarkable debut; an accomplished and intricately plotted." (Jon McGregor)

"A Lonely Man is a delicate snare of a novel." (Brandon Taylor)

"A thrilling, unnerving novel. a page-turner with exacting syntax and emotional heft." (Catherine Lacey)

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Starts slow. Seems boring but it really does get better. Some things are not answered and bits are disjointed but overall it's good.

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