Andrew Mowatt signs <em>Severed Branch</em> Today, 1/28/07
Talking Leaves...Books is hosting booksigning for Andrew Mowatt, a new author originally from the Western New York Area. Today at 2 PM, area native and Brooklyn resident Andrew Mowatt will be on hand to sign copies of his first novel, Severed Branch, in which a contemporary businessman's job and dreams take him on a strange journey to France and back in time to the trench warfare of the Great War. The book is inspired in part by Mowatt's family history and deep interest in World War One.
The plot of the novel weaves a businessman's "modern warfare" with his growing knowledge of his family's brutal history during the war. Painstakingly researched, the book brings the reader deep into the trenches and air battles of the war, and brings Victorian England vividly to life. The family conflict involves the three Murdoch brothers, sons of a hypocritical church leader. Two brothers sign up, while the third is intent on joining the clergy. However, when his father discovers his dark secret, he forces him into battle as a combat flyer. Further plot twists lead the reader deep into a superb story of man's inhumanity to man and ultimately, to redemption.
Talking Leaves...Books, 951 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, 14222, 716.884.9524, 2 PM, Free.
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