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What Fools We Have Been is the debut novel from author Frank Williams it has been published via Chiselbury Press.
Morecambe Bay, Lancashire: After his father’s death, a son clears out his parents’ house. When he finds a series of haunting photographs of Morecambe Bay, taken by his father towards the end of his life, it sparks a journey through the scattered memories and broken connections of five generations of family history.
Flowing from the vibrant post-war Jewish community of London’s East End, to the quiet suburban streets of Stanmore, and back to the Lancashire coast, the story cascades down through each generation’s shifting perspective. A wife appeases her charismatic yet destructive husband; a son reimagines the jigsaw of his mother’s life; a granddaughter tries to heal the traumas of the past.
What Fools We Have Been is an exploration of memory, identity, and the trail of damage left in the wake of wartime trauma. It asks: What is it that makes us who we are? Is it possible to repair the wreckage of the past?
What Fools We Have Been is a short novel, but one that really packs in the emotion. Told from multiple POVs, it explores the family dynamic and how each individual processes and sees the same events differently.
Telling the story from different POVS gives it lots of depth and makes it very real and lived. It’s one of those reads that lingers in your brain longer after you have finished reading.
An interesting and thought-provoking read!
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