When the Revd Robert Melton first arrives at St Mungos, his initial enthusiasm quickly turns to despondency until the biggest jackpot in US lottery history triggers a series of uncanny events that throws him, and the seemingly unconnected lives of people on both sides of the Atlantic, into a vortex of questioning, selfdoubt and the search for truth. For all of them, try as they might to escape it, the past remains a constant presence. From the rundown despair of Roberts dying inner London parish to the yearnings for love and physical contact of the citys social outcasts and from the moneydriven hubris of Manhattans financial elite to the homespun wisdom of rural New England The Other Side of Loss is a modernday parable of loss and redemption, of despair and triumph, of human weakness and the lifeaffirming salvation of human strength in all its meanings. Any novel that weaves a hightension narrative out of two priests, prostitution, and a lottery ticket has to keep you turning the pages. Gyles Brandreth Zounds! Not since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein has a more colourful story come from a more surprising source. Tom Vaughan is a very imaginative soul. George Butler, film producer, The Endurance, Roving Mars, Tiger Tiger

Binding: Paperback;578 pages; Publisher: Thomas Vaughan; Classification: N/A; Weight: 998.61 g; Dimensions: N/A

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