Time tells tales - Tale One - Alfred's Tale - Dead in a Ditch

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Time Tells Tales A Novel in Five Tales By Stephanie Fletcher

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  • 1. Time Tells Tales A Novel in Five Tales By Stephanie Fletcher
  • 2. Synopsis Set in Ireland and England in the early 1900s, covering a century, Time Tells Tales is a Novel in five parts or Tales. They explore the history of three families; their interconnected lives are intricately woven together by love, birth, death, and marriage. These lives are spiced up by religion, revenge, scandal, abuse, heartache and spiritual intervention. The five Tales are told from different perspectives by the characters that drive this novel along to the surprising conclusion, spreading across time, space and dimensions, hence the title - Time Tells Tales.
  • 3. Alfreds Tale Alfred of indeterminable age is lying at the bottom of an icy cold deep muddy ditch, where he is hidden by brambles and branches. He has been knocked into this desperate place by a hit and run driver on a lonely, unlit lane on the Staffordshire moorlands. He was drunk as a skunk and it was pitch black. Dead In A Ditch
  • 4. He didnt blame the driver for not stopping, why would they? He was one of lifes destitute wanderers, better for all if he was not found. He was sure that broken bones aside, this was going to be his last resting place. As this realisation hits home Alfred begins to review, play out the high and lows of his mostly misspent life, whilst his body succumbs to hypothermia, and finally death. What will he reveal? Will he be found? These and many more questions will be answered in this first novel by this new author, Stephanie Fletcher. For sure, Time certainly has some Tales to Tell.
  • 5. For Sale Website http://stephanie-fletcher.co.uk Amazon Smashwords Goodreads Autharium And all good ebook sites.