Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Kerry for getting a free copy of Survival By Storytelling Issue One from SBS Magazine.
This week, we are giving away a copy of Black Boxes by Caroline Smailes. Julie Myerson meets Ian McEwan in this gripping novel of family breakdown. Ana Lewis is trapped by her own expectations. Her intense relationship with fellow student Alex begins to crack beyond repair when she becomes pregnant, and his subsequent withdrawal, emotionally and sexually are hard for Ana to bear. Eventually, following the birth of Pip and then Davie, Alex leaves Ana to a life of question and blame. Locked in her room for much of the time she woefully neglects her children, preferring instead to replay scenes from her life over and over, fighting the urge to blink for fear it should dissipate the memories. Told within the context of two black boxes, one Ana’s and one Pip’s, the story reveals the key factors that have contributed to this catastrophic breakdown of life.
This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by The Friday Project. The Friday Project is the only publishing company that specialises in sourcing the brightest talent from the web and developing it into great books.
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Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, March 5 and notified via email. The winner must respond to our email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.
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EDIT: Giveaway now closed. Congrats to this week’s winner PENNY. Try your luck again with Tama Janowitz’s dystopian They Is Us in the new Free Book Friday.
