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This, My Second Life

byPatrick Charnley

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After a near-death experience, twenty-year-old Jago Trevarno retreats to his uncle’s off-grid coastal farm in West Cornwall, a place where time has stood still. Light comes from oil lamps and candles, hot water from the stove.

Away from the rush of modern life, Jago immerses himself in the natural world. Under his uncle’s gentle guidance, he falls into the rhythms of the land: tending the animals, harvesting vegetables, and riding horseback along the winding lanes.

In this meditative existence, Jago’s perspective opens. Slowed down by the illness that brought him here, he begins to see the world afresh and to find a fragile yet powerful sense of personal renewal.

But even remote farms have neighbours, and when the shadow of local villain Bill Sligo falls across the Trevarno farm, Jago must act to protect this, his second life.

An astonishing debut of recovery…The prose is spare and beautiful, the narrative simple but sound – it is as finely wrought as poetry… Jago’s distinctive voice emerges, a true and clear and entirely convincing creation, always reaching towards the light and life

The Guardian

About Patrick Charnley

Patrick Charnley grew up in the English West Country where he fell in love with Cornwall, the setting for this novel. While convalescing from a cardiac arrest that very nearly ended his life and left him with a brain injury, he began to write. He now lives in north London with his wife and children.
This, My Second Life is his first novel.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781804956588
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Price: £9.99
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