The Other Side of Loss

When the Revd Robert Melton first arrives at St Mungos his initial enthusiasm quickly turns to despondency - until the biggest jackpot in US lottery history triggers a series of uncanny events that throws him and the seemingly unconnected lives of people on both sides of the Atlantic into a vortex of questioning self-doubt and the search for truth. For all of them try as they might to escape it the past remains a constant presence. From the run-down despair of Roberts dying inner London parish to the yearnings for love and physical contact of the citys social outcasts - and from the money-driven hubris of Manhattans financial elite to the home-spun wisdom of rural New England - The Other Side of Loss is a modern-day parable of loss and redemption of despair and triumph of human weakness and the life-affirming salvation of human strength in all its meanings. Any novel that weaves a high-tension narrative out of two priests prostitution and a lottery ticket has to keep you turning the pages. Gyles Brandreth Zounds! Not since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein has a more colourful story come from a more surprising source. Tom Vaughan is a very imaginative soul. George Butler film producer The Endurance Roving Mars Tiger Tiger