The Beautiful Fall

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Author
Hugh Breakey
Publisher
Text Publishing
Genre
Fiction
Released
04 May, 2021
ISBN
9781922330543

The Beautiful Fall

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Synopsis

Every 179 days Robbie forgets everything. He knows this because last time it happened he wrote himself a letter explaining it. The disorientation. The fear. The bizarre circumstances imposed by the rare neurological condition he lives with. To survive the forgetting—to cope with his recurring loss of identity—Robbie leads a solitary, regimented life. Lives alone. Speaks to no one if he can avoid it. Works to complete a strange herculean task set for him by his former self. And then, with twelve days left before his next forgetting, Julie invades his life. Young, beautiful—the only woman he can ever remember meeting. As the hour draws near, Robbie is forced to confront the fact that his past is very different from how he had imagined it. And when Julie reveals her own terrible secret, he must find a way to come to terms with the truth about himself.

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A Cinematic, Page-Turning Romance: Bookclub Notes for The Beautiful Fall by Hugh Breakey

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11 May 2021

A Cinematic, Page-Turning Romance: Bookclub Notes for The Beautiful Fall by Hugh Breakey

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        Hugh Breakey
        About the author

        Hugh Breakey

        Hugh Breakey is an award-winning and widely published philosopher. He has previously worked as a kitchen hand, editor, airport construction worker, theatre director, ethics consultant, pinball repairer, disk jockey, tennis-court builder and university lecturer. Hugh lives in rural Australia with his two children and his wife, novelist and New York Times bestseller, Kylie Scott.

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