Windelton, England’s most absurd townA sleepy, northern outpost becomes the focus of the world’s media following a chain of outrageous events. An eccentric bank manager, believing all the money in the bank is rightfully his, steals the fortune of a philanthropic heiress and plans his escape with a past love.“A tale of wonderful absurdities” “Full of very British, witty charm”“Go to Windelton with D A Adamson – you’ll not be disappointed”A colourful thread of inhabitants weaves its way through the narrative - a fading Edwardian aristocrat’s family; an outwardly drab secretary with a taste for illicit pleasures; a boozy vicar whose unorthodox ministry mesmerises parishioners and a clairvoyant with a gift of ‘seeing’ that is uncannily half-correct.The Windelton Absurdities is a page turning read, packed with passion and human drama in a parody of small town life in 1960s Britain. Secrets, jealousies and outrageous behaviour spill out of its pages from start to finish. Prepare to laugh out loud until this tragi-comedy reaches its fateful conclusion.
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D A Adamson is a long-established advertising copywriter who has written for press, radio and TV. He is a native Yorkshire man with a keen sense of the ironic and a love of the absurd. This humour, arising through careful observation, is gleefully apparent throughout his narrative style. Before entering advertising, Adamson worked in a small, rural bank and much of the material for his central character is drawn from this experience. He was inspired by the books of Waugh, Heller, Hemmingway and John Updike, and from early childhood read Private Eye avidly. Like many advertising copywriters there was always an uncompleted book lurking in his top right hand drawer, and The Windelton Absurdities is the culmination of that ambition. His second novel, a sequel, was publishing in 2016. D A Adamson is married with three grown-up children and still lives in Yorkshire.
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