Letters to Jude now in Kindle

I am pleased to announce that my new novel Letters to Jude is now available in Kindle at Amazon.uk https://amzn.to/3BR6BpF or Amazon.com https://amzn.to/3dmUA1M It would be great to receive a comment about it or a like or even a short review.

The paperback of Letters to Jude is also available in some good bookshops and online with a Look Inside facility showing the author’s Preface at https://amzn.to/3bTj5CJ and amazon.com link: https://amzn.to/3OPhv3d The publisher’s link is https://bit.ly/3P61Mx2

I was privileged to receive an arts grant towards the completion of this novel.

Unable to find emotional rapport with his wife, Lil, with whom he shares a childless marriage, middle-aged and ailing librarian Leo Lambkin begins a correspondence with an old flame, Bernarda, who writes to him from Seville after she hears of the tragic death of his mother. Bernarda, whom Leo disguises as Jude, informs him that he is the father of her child, Uanito, begot some years previously by violent circumstances. As dark wintry days give way to the increasing light and hope of summer, Leo and Jude long for an anticipated rendezvous. But what are the forces that stand in their way?

‘If every word was once a poem, then what happened? We think that we are using language while, like the ground beneath us, all the time language may be using us. In Letters to Jude James Lawless takes us on a magical tour also a through the levels of language, in all its glory and its slipperiness. He has at once a heightened sense of the promises of language and a deep, nagging doubt about the limits to communicability. Such is his intrepid sophistication, that he can even bring himself to doubt the very medium through which those doubts are expressed. A tour-de-force for the mind but also a chastening that words come from the body and return to it’. Declan Kiberd

‘A rich Joycean novel with beautifully written passages of linguistic diversity and deep emotions full of insights.’ Brandon Yen

There is a great review of Letters to Jude in the Sunday Independent 28/8/2022 at https://bit.ly/3Tu4yys

Kind regards,
James