Author Description

Picture, for a moment, Jonathan Payne, probably the last person in the world you would expect to be the lead character in anybody's novel, a faded old bookseller nearing the end of a wasted life. We meet him sitting alone in his flat just waiting on Death to knock at his front door. But life has something else in store for poor Jonathan. Instead of Death he gets to spend two days with the personification of truth who opens Jonathan's eyes to not only what his life has become but what it might have been. He learns what he's missed out on, what other people are really thinking and the true nature of the universe which, it transpires, has been in the hands of entities like Truth, Reality, Destiny and others who've always been with us and yet haven't always made the best choices for humanity. By the end of the book, having learned far more about himself than he ever wanted to know, he discovers that it's usually never too late to start again. Only sometimes it is.