A DEBUT NOVEL
The Remaking of Myles
by David Rosenbaum
A man who has spent his whole life not looking back finds the past waiting for him at the ferry wharf.
A DEBUT NOVEL
The Remaking of Myles
by David Rosenbaum
A man who has spent his whole life not looking back finds the past waiting for him at the ferry wharf.
THE DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to children of Holocaust survivors and the vicarious trauma that they experience throughout their lives.
THE AUTHOR
Dr David Rosenbaum
A career spent studying how people learn and change, and a first novel that asks the same question of one man.
David is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. The Remaking of Myles is his debut, written over two years alongside his academic work. He is currently writing the sequel.
STEP INTO THE STORY
MEET MYLES BEFORE EVERYTHING CHANGES
Successful, driven and seemingly in control, Myles has built the life he thought he wanted. But beneath the surface, something is beginning to unravel.
Start with Chapter One and discover where his remaking begins.
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WHERE TO BUY
Printed to order in Melbourne and shipped direct, so it is never out of stock.
The Book
“He’s worried that something’s happening to him, but he doesn’t know what.”
Myles is a investment banker at the height of his career and the end of his marriage. He catches the same ferry every morning and reads client files the whole way across, never once looking at the harbour.
Then an old fisherman on the wharf raises his voice, and something gives way. Myles’s heart races, his vision blurs, and his dead father’s face rises up in front of him.
What follows is a year of coming apart. A mother’s death. A sealed envelope holding her testimony. A sister carrying a disclosure she has never been able to say out loud. Myles has to reckon with a history nobody told him and which he has been carrying the whole time regardless.
A novel about inherited grief, the cost of a life built on never stopping, and how much of a person can be dismantled before what remains is finally their own.
Thirty-eight chapters,
one year of a life.
A few of them, in the order they arrive.
01 The Morning Tensions That Feed His Routines
08 An Agonising Loss
13 Identity
22 Three Threshold Days
35 The Moat is Now Empty
03 The Wakeup Call That Was
09 The Secret Horror
15 Rachel’s Rage
29 Redemption?
38 Eyeing Off the Future by Reflecting on the Past
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Where Myles goes next.
Notes on the writing, progress on the sequel, and first word on launches and festival dates.
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Having had the pleasure of working with this author in his previous career as a highly skilled and respected academic, a wonderful teacher and researcher, I was of course surprised when he mentioned some time ago that he was leaving this career to concentrate on fulltime writing of a novel. I was saddened to lose my co-researcher and academic partner. Well, having read his first foray into fiction with this terrific novel, I am thrilled that he made this decision, especially as he has brought into the exercise all his talents of observation, analysis, critical thinking, empathy and beautiful writing, to flesh out such an important and timely novel when we are all challenged to understand each other...
Professor Elizabeth More, AM, FAICD
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