Monday 27 October 2014
In The Cold Light of Day by Pauline Barclay
Release Date: 26th October 2014
Publisher: Self-pub
Publisher: Self-pub
Genres: Fiction
Thank
you so much JB for having me back on your fabulous Brook Cottage Books site to talk about my latest book, I feel extremely
honoured to be sitting here again.
Like
my last book, Storm Clouds Gathering,
I have once again returned to the sixties for In the Cold Light of Day. I just love to write about the times when
mobile phones, lap tops, the World Wide Web and computers in general were
nothing more than a futuristic dream. Set
in the London area, In the Cold Light of Day is a moving story about gambling
addiction taking the reader into a world of lies and deception. Like all of my
books, it is an emotional read, one that gets to the very core of the
characters feelings. I’m sure the odd tissue will be needed. I admit to having
felt emotional when I was writing this book.
You
asked what inspired me to write about gambling. “The initial idea came to me
after I had heard how a business man had lost everything he owned through
gambling. A few weeks later I met a lady who had a family member who was
addicted to internet gambling. From then on my story slowly began to unfold.
To
understand the deep emotions of how addiction takes over, I read many stories
from people who had been in that kind of situation. I also I spent a great deal
of time checking out gambling rules and laws that were pertinent to the
sixties, very different from today’s gaming laws. And of course back then there
were no stringent checks on money transfer as there is today. In the Cold Light
of Day is not about sitting round a roulette table or understanding the rules,
it is about how two people find themselves caught up in the consequences of
gambling addiction and how it turns their lives upside down.
Here
is the blurb….
Bertie Costain has worked hard all his life in the building trade and
now owns his own London-based company. In 1967, approaching fifty and still
unmarried he enjoys a playboy lifestyle, but when he meets Kitty, an
attractive, wealthy widow ten years his senior, he swiftly proposes.
Swept off her feet, Kitty adores him. The happy couple seem to have it
all, but Bertie has a secret. Kitty has no idea their home is mortgaged to the
hilt, or that the many expensive gifts he brings her come out of his winnings
at roulette. Proud of his apparent
success and ignorant of his gambling addiction, she happily loans him large
sums of money, ostensibly for his business.
Convinced with each spin of the wheel that his run of bad luck will
change, Bertie gambles for increasingly high stakes, falling deeper and deeper
into debt until, facing financial ruin and with nowhere to turn, he resorts to
fraud. As their lives begin to unravel, Kitty learns the horrifying truth.
In the cold light of day can their love survive the pain and
destruction Bertie’s addiction has wrought?
In the Cold Light of Day is available in Kindle from ALL Amazon stores
(paperback to follow on the New Year)
Pauline’s
Links…
Web
site: www.paulinebarclay.co.uk
Blog
Site: http://paulinembarclay.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/paulinembarclay
Twitter:
@paulinembarclay
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