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Finding Helen

By: Colin Greenland

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Paperback | 15 March 2003 | Edition Number 1

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In his late 40s, in a career and a marriage that have each lost their lustre, Chris Gale is someone to whom life never quite kept its promise.One morning, as he is leaving for work, he hears a song on the radio- a song that transports him back to an altogether better, happier time - the early 1970s, when youth, idealism and music, especially the music of singer-songwriter Helen Leonard, might have chnaged the world. Haunted by a raw sense of loss and a growing resentment at how life has turned out, Chris - goaded on by the mysterious, elusive apparition of the 'Beagle Man' - begins a physical, spiritual and emotional quest. Revisiting old haunts and old memories, he searches for an answer to a question that has haunted him, unanswered, for nearly 30 years- what did Fate hold in store for the woman he devoted himself to so entirely all those years ago - the maddening, mercurial, mischievous Helen Leonard...Witty, elegiac, affecting and, as the narrative unrolls, increasingly disturbing, FINDING HELEN is a novel about the consequences of loss - of innocence, idealism and youth, a novel about memory and obsession, betrayal and forgiveness and what might lie beyond the veil...

Industry Reviews

'A beautifully written tale of betrayal and forgiveness' * Heat *
'This engaging narrative kept me intrigued to the end...As one would expect from Colin Greenland, the novel is a cunning piece of artifice' -- CHARLES PALLISER, author of The Quincunx
'Mature, readable, effortlessly impressive' -- M. JOHN HARRISON, author of Light
'Wonderfully elegiac...what gives it emotional power is Greenland's evocation of time and place and the sense of lost possibilities' -- ROBERT IRWIN, author of The Arabian Nightmare
'Colin Greenland has the kind of mind most writers would kill for. His prose is as flexible and dangerous as a rapier, while his stories go for both the head and the heart' -- Neil Gaiman

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