Historical Fiction Meets Eco-Fiction in Explorative New Novel

CAPE COD, Mass. - Feb. 20, 2024 - PRLog -- Sea Crow Press announces Andy Brown's novel launching on March 5, 2024. Lauded an imaginary triumph,  The Midnight Mechanic, an unflinching description of 19th-century London, wraps a Dickensian rags-to-riches tale in modern prose woven with strands of environmentalism.

From The Book
A boy drowns in the sewers of Victorian London...

His death leads to the orphaning of his surviving brothers, Arthur and Silas, in a grim Dickensian underworld. Overcoming the odds, the brothers' fates shift from grinding poverty to reversals of fortune that play out in conflicting and emotional ways. Which of them will make the right decision for their future, and at what cost? Painting vivid images of destitution, family ties, the dignity of work, and social responsibility, The Midnight Mechanic explores a man's relentless pursuit to better himself, to escape the muck and make amends, while raising pressing environmental issues that are still pertinent today.

About the Author
The Midnight Mechanic is Andy Brown's second novel. He is the author of Apples & Prayers (Dean Street Press, 2015),  and over twenty acclaimed books of poetry, he also co-edited the major medical poetry anthology, A Body of Work (2016) for Bloomsbury. Bloomsbury recently published The Tree Climbing Cure, a pioneering study of the relationship between tree climbing and wellbeing. He is Professor of Creative & Critical Writing at Exeter University.

What They're Saying
"The Midnight Mechanic takes us into the impressively conjured world of Victorian England's crippling poverty. I love this book for the sheer tactility of its portrayals of characters and urban cityscapes, and the way the reader is immediately sucked into the drama of the novel. Brown imbues his characters' lives with resilience, hope and the kind of drama that sweep us up from the very first page. The Midnight Mechanic is an imaginative triumph."
—Jacob Ross, FRSL, author of Pynter Bender, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

"The Midnight Mechanic is both vividly original and scrupulously researched."
—Vesna Goldsworthy, FRSL, author of Gorsky

Details
Perfect-bound paperback  5.5 x 8.5
258 pages
Publication Date: March 5, 2024
ISBN: 978-1961864047
Publisher: Sea Crow Press
Category: Fiction | Historical Fiction| Environment | Eco-Fiction Language: English
Distributor: Ingram Spark:  40% Returnable, 50% not returnable from the press at orders@seacrowpress.com
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