Michael Egan releases first novel Circles a Clover

“I did not realise Cheshire was so flat, it provides this gorgeous bleakness with pockets of isolation.”

This is according to Michael Egan, an writer who, right until lately, lived in Hartford close to Northwich and taught English at St Nicholas Catholic High Faculty.

Initially from Liverpool, his crafting focuses on the landscape of Cheshire and Merseyside, which is highlighted in his to start with novel, Circles a Clover.

Michael describes his novel as a ‘blurring of the imagined and the real’, portion of which is established in Hartford alone.

The tale centres close to a 15-year-old having care of her father, who is obsessed that the earth is going to end in a ‘massive catastrophe’.

As section of his planning to escape this fate, the pair leave their residence in Hartford for the fictional island of Selny, off the coastline close to Liverpool.

A blurb from All the things with Words and phrases provides: “A gripping piece of magical realism.

“The harsh truth of a poor, isolated life is perceived obliquely by the eyes of a father and daughter whose tangled eyesight add a good contact of poetry, irony, and magic to what are or else widespread life, marked by a ongoing scramble for existence.”

Michael’s literary track record was first of all in poetry and he now has a amount of published performs.

He described: “My poetry has usually been about spot.

“When I moved to Cheshire, a good deal of my creating concentrated on that and it is offered me a great deal to generate about.

“It’s that semi-rural good quality which is pretty strange about Cheshire.

“It’s about nature colliding with the city and that takes place a whole lot in Cheshire.

“I didn’t realise it was so flat, it provides this wonderful bleakness with pockets of isolation.

“With the novel, Hartford is an affluent location but the people I want to compose about are from a doing work course qualifications.

“My characters are on the edge of that modern society and are existing inside these smaller pockets.”

The novel’s title arrives from a poem, A Track on the Finish of the Environment by Czeslaw Milosz, in which the picture of a bee circling a clover is used to illustrate the conclusion of the environment passing almost without having any person realising, a symbol which Michael was influenced by.

He included: “I wrote the novel a handful of a long time in the past when I was instructing and finished it really swiftly.

“I experienced been toying with the notion of distinctive formats but then I received the hook of the poem.”

Circles a Clover is unveiled on October 21.