The Schism

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When fate isn't in the stars, but in the wrong hands. Patrick Farrell's life is complex, but under control. His work takes him through the streets of South London, repossessing credit cards and searching for missing debtors. And in the evenings he visits his schizophrenic brother, Mike, who stares out of his hospital room window, convinced he's being watched. But when Patrick's girlfriend introduces him to a new crowd with a strange interest in astrology and the occult, his world is thrown dramatically out of kilter. Sharp, compassionate and darkly comic, this gripping literary thriller shows what happens when the lives of those you care about are suddenly, terrifyingly, at risk.

Author Bio

ROBERT DICKINSON is the author of The Noise of Strangers, published by Myriad in 2010, and two acclaimed volumes of poetry, Micrographia (shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize) and Szyzgy (with Andrew Dilger), and the comedy drama, Murder's Last Case. He also wrote the libretto for Joby Talbot's choral work Path of Miracles. He lives in Brighton.