Whirligig: Keeping the Promise

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 RUBERY INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD

The first novel from multi-award winning short-story writer Richard Buxton, Whirligig is at once an outsider's odyssey through the battle for Tennessee, a touching story of impossible love, and a portrait of America at war with itself. Self-interest and conflict, betrayal and passion, all fuse into a fateful climax.

Shire leaves his home and his life in Victorian England for the sake of a childhood promise, a promise that will pull him into the bleeding heart of the American Civil War and through the bloody battlefields of the West, where he will discover a second home for his loyalty.

Clara believes she has escaped from a predictable future of obligation and privilege, but her new life in the Appalachian Hills of Tennessee is decaying around her. In the mansion of Comrie, long hidden secrets are being slowly exhumed by a war that comes ever closer.

Author: Richard Buxton
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ocoee Publishing
Published: 04/22/2017
Series: Shire's Union Trilogy #1
Pages: 498
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780995769304

About the Author
Buxton, Richard: - Richard lives with his family in the South Downs, Sussex, England. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University in 2014. He has an abiding relationship with America, having studied at Syracuse University, New York State, in the late eighties. His short stories have won the Exeter Story Prize, the Bedford International Writing Competition and the Nivalis Short Story Award. Whirligig is his first novel and the opening book of Shire's Union trilogy. Current projects include the second book, The Copper Road, as well as preparing to publish a collection of short stories. To learn more about Richard's writing visit https: //www.richardbuxton.net.