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Nothing Happens Up There
He didn’t expect to fall in love. He didn’t expect to find his constituents and farm animals dying and he certainly didn’t expect to find the cause was a local laboratory experimenting with gene-editing.
She didn’t expect to start an affair in Barcelona. She didn’t expect her husband to embrace ‘the boring North’ and she didn’t expect her biggest client to be her husband’s biggest enemy.
But something is certainly happening ‘up there’.
When Andrew Eastwood quits his city job to become West Lincolnshire’s MP, the unexpected happens. It’s 2018 and in the next two years prime ministers will come and go, scientists will make medical breakthroughs and Covid will strike the world.
Andrew and his wife must make the biggest decisions of their lives. Will love overcome the forces that threaten the Eastwood family and will the world ever be the same after this?
Nothing Happens Up There is not only a fast-moving thriller that explores the rapid development of gene-editing but also a modern love story of a couple torn between choosing a career and a home life in a world beset by self-serving politicians and businessmen who will stop at nothing to make their fortune.
Only £9.99
About
Laurie Rogers
Laurie Rogers had a career in advertising, including setting up an agency in London.
In addition to his copywriting at the agency, he was the publisher of Woman Abroad, a monthly magazine for expat wives.
He lives in Surrey with his wife Sue.
Why I Love Writing
I love writing. I used to write ad copy for years in my London ad agency. But I always wanted to write stories. Like many of us I yearned to write a novel. And one day (or rather after a couple of years work) I actually did.
I always look to challenge conventional ideas. In that first novel, Degrees of Power, a Muslim terrorist is killed when his bomb goes off in Central London. Except that he isn’t a terrorist and it isn’t his bomb.
In my first published novel a few years later entitled Outdriven, the heroine, a 60 year old widow invites a young Polish man to help her save her beloved golf club from financial disaster. But he disappears later along with her money. Everyone believes he is a thief, but is he? Is he the bad actor or is it the Russian Bank that plots to seize the golfclub?
You start with an idea and you develop it. As you build up your characters they begin to take on a life of their own and the novel takes turns that surprise you, the author.
I like my stories to be believable and set them in recent time, often with references to political events happening around them. The characters express their feelings about issues of the time. But good stories need to have good plots, characters you believe in and unexpected endings. I enjoy writing those stories and I hope you’ll enjoy reading them.
Also by Laurie
Outdriven
Imagine you’re a woman approaching 60 and your husband is killed in a car crash. Suddenly your whole life changes. You’ve got all the household bills to pay, the insurance to sort, the second home in Portugal to deal with. You don’t even know how to open his computer.
Then you find your golf club (of which he was captain) has been mismanaged and conned and isi facing closure after 99 years.
So when a young Polish man enters your life you welcome him and he moves in. Together, you hatch a plan to save your golf club, but then he disappears completely taking your money with him. Is this a case of an old lady being conned or is she right to believe in him?
Read Outdriven and you’ll find out
Reviews for Outdriven
“Loved it from start to finish, Great plot.” – E.L.R.
“Just had to keep reading. Can’t wait for the next book.” – L.E.E.N.
“Absorbing, entertaining, with a twist in the tail.” – A.R.
“Fascinating characters…. poignant social commentary. Very enjoyable read.” – P.R.