One Hundred Ticks - Softcover

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Meet Lukas, a famer who develops an obsession for a scarecrow on his dead father’s fields. Meet Mr Hare: a bitter piano teacher outmatched by a schoolboy prodigy. Then there’s Paul Giggs, the autistic kid who’s fantastic at his college coursework, but it looks like he might fail his oral presentation at the end of term. An elderly veteran remembers a battle in Holland, 1944, still plagued by the ghost of the man he killed there. A wealthy model has his face freakishly scarred in a car crash, and the injury ends his career. A foreign correspondent meets a famous dictator for the first time, naively thinking she has the verve to take him on. Alongside 94 other little tales. “One Hundred Ticks is a collection of skilfully crafted vignettes. I couldn’t stop reading as each story left me wanting more. Abbott transports the reader through a myriad of situations with well observed characters. There’s something in here for everyone.” – Spike Munro.

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