Alan Salmon

The Reason For Life Alan Salmon

This exciting and thought-provoking Science Fantasy novel is packed with everything you would imagine from this hybrid genre. Simon touches on such issues as abuse, mental health, self-harm, murder and philosophy, and then leads you into a colourfully created, magical fantasy world. Simon's story isn't one for the faint-hearted. Fostered at just two months old by an evil woman, Simon's dark world is filled with pain and abuse. His only source of comfort and support is big brother, George, whose heart never seems to be tainted by their mother's vile actions. When she viciously attacks George one day, Simon can't hold back any longer, and succumbs to the inevitable. Quickly moved to a foster home for boys, his paranoia grows and when the red mist falls again, his next home is a room inside a secure psychiatric hospital. Pumped with medication for the first year, their effects finally lessen and in a rare lucid moment, Simon hears God's voice telling him he has to save the world. God tells him that his destiny is to write a book called, The Reason for Life. And as he embarks on the biggest challenge of his life, the real, vulnerable young man and his real personality begins to emerge. He discovers long-lost family, begins to paint, finds a much-needed element of inner peace and all is well in Simon's world... ... until tragedy strikes again. Filled with stimulating, underlying messages, Simon will not disappoint any science fantasy fan. The twists and turns will have you glued from one page to the next and Simon's fate, and that of his next generation, will seep deep into your imagination and lurk there for a very long time.