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- Book Synopsis
- A coming to terms with marriage and career, the life-long impact of a father's alcoholism, and an aunt's insistent example to live an unroofed life. "I had gone to the common under the vague impression that I wished to recapture something of a life I no longer possessed." Following his aunt Abilene's death, Robert travels from Manchester to Hampshire to settle her estate. Instead of fulfilling his executor duties, he impulsively builds a hut on nearby Ludshott Common and stays for seven days. This introspective novel explores his week in nature as he grapples with loss, disillusionment, marriage, career, parenthood, white male privilege, and his father's alcoholism. Blending fiction, auto-fiction, and place writing, Common is a novel about solitude, connection, and the fragile peace we attempt to make with ourselves-a portrait of renewal, reckoning, and the frequently failed attempt to reconnect with both past legacies and present realities.
- About The Author
- Nikolai Duffy is the author of two previous cross-genre poetry collections, and the literary non-fiction book, Relative Strangeness: Reading Rosmarie Waldrop. His creative work has been read and performed internationally,.In 2019 he was awarded a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Ljubljana. Common is his first novel. He teaches in the English Department at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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- ISBN
- 9781915983428
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Goldsmiths Press, (21 October 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 203 x 127 mm
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