The Crooked Tower
A story in twelve letters
The Crooked Tower
The story begins with the finding of forgotten, or abandoned, war letters. They start benignly enough then quickly descend into horror and fear as the world is gripped in the great global conflagration of World War Two. The letters being mostly those received from a brother in the civil service of French Indochina to his gifted sister Maria, in Lorient, France.
The letters take Cameron, their finder, on a family trail that had been expunged, across Europe. From Lorient to Berlin. From an ignorance to an epiphany.
“Superb. Authentic. Haunting.”
— Jade
“This book reached me most on an emotional level. It made me cry. But it has a relevant and important point to make, now, today. This book packs a punch, intellectually and emotionally.”
— Graham
About Pip
Born in England in 1965, Pip moved to Sydney Australia in 2004, where he now lives with his family, his primary passion. Pip is also passionate about the environment, particularly trees, his dogs (Smoky and Zip) and the written word.
Pip’s Quora bio:
‘At least I know I don’t know.
I’m anti-establishment, a non-conformist, and rebel thinker. If there is a consensus, I’ll challenge it. I’m most frightened by in-group prejudice. Of course, I’m an atheist, yet in awe of nature and the universe, which I am sure, more than compensates for the psychological egg-tooth of theology. I consider myself, insofar as I am able, to be a steward of the natural world and am a self declared ‘Greenman’.’
