London,
UK (October 8, 2015) -- Kevin Austin's Fractured Idols is a
snapshot of the lives of wealthy Metropolitans who inhabit London's
super-rich Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. This is the world
of Sebastian Cartwright, top International Interior Designer and
friend of the great and the good. His larger-than-life chums include
Magda, a glamorous Hungarian émigré, her lover Phillip, Viscount
Brampton, scion of an Aristocratic English family and trusted
confidant, Karim, a Moroccan Architect who commutes between Marrakesh
and Amsterdam with his Dutch partner Christiaan.
But
Sebastian Cartwright is angry. His career as an Interior Designer
took a hit during the Credit Crunch in 2008 and has never recovered.
He feels adrift in a world that has changed beyond his recognition;
his whole being fractured. A classicist in style, his old-fashioned
values have also suffered at the hands of what he feels to be a
Media-led destruction of all he holds dear. His world-view,
influenced by his innate Christianity, is affronted by the idolatry
he sees around him.
Magda
introduces him to Madeleine Armitage, an avaricious, antipodean
corporate wife and Sebastian's life is turned upside down. His deep
antipathy towards her is put aside during a weekend house party in
rural Southern Spain where a significant person from his past appears
and he is forced to confront a panoply of emotions buried deep in his
soul.
A
timely and humorous look at the issues of Big: Government, Banks,
Media, and Religion, Fractured Idols reinvents a well-worn idiom:
"Hell hath no fury like a Homosexual scorned".
Author Bio:
Kevin Austin attended school and University in Perth, Western
Australia before moving to London in 1987. Experience working in the
City of London, Television Production, and as co-owner of a Boutique
Hotel in Spain gave him the background for this, his first novel. He
co-owns British Society Salon EQUUSHAIR with his partner Geoffrey and
they live in Kensington with their Labrador Charlie.
Fractured
Idols is the first of two parts. Goliath and the Kitten Factory will
be published by First Edition in March 2016.
Genre
- Politics, Government, Religion, Drama, Fiction
The
ebook version of Fractured Idols ISBN 9781622879540, published by
First
Edition Design Publishing, is available on-line
wherever ebooks are sold. The 154 page print book version, ISBN
9781622879533 is published by First Edition Design Publishing and
distributed worldwide to online booksellers.
Media
Contact:
Kevin
Austin
+1(941)921-2607
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