A local author is publishing a psychological thriller set in Victorian era Great Yarmouth and the Broads.
'The Faces of the Fiend of Breydon', by Charles Reader, is being launched at the Time and Tide Museum on Tuesday, April 4, at 6pm.
The novel was shortlisted out of an entry of 13,500 in WH Smith's Raw Talent competition in 2002, and is published for the first time in paperback by Norwich publisher Paul Dickson.
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Mr Reader, who was brought up near the Halvergate marshes, wrote about the area using childhood memories as well as conversations with neighbours.
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“It was a great boost to me to reach the final six of WH Smith's Raw Talent competition back in 2002 and it is now a great pleasure to see my book in print, published by Paul Dickson Books," he said.
According to the blurb, the book is "a tale of fear, obsession, passion, greed, folly, and death".
'The Faces of the Fiend of Breydon' is on sale at Allthingsnorfolk.com and Amazon.
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