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Disappearing Dreams – Editorial Review

The perfect recipe for mayhem is one part Jack Flowers, a case of beer and a beautiful woman. Any beautiful woman. Jack Flowers is a young man with a sobriety problem. He can’t put the cork in a bottle and leave it there.

Another night on the drink, another disaster with consequences that breaks hearts and destroys dreams. Jack flowers wakes up with a monumental hangover to find his girlfriend tatiana has gone into hiding and no-one is telling him where she is. After even further rejection from his bi-sexual, part time lover, Jack sets off on a colourful road trip across Australia to try and find Tatiana and win back her trust.

Jack Flowers is a self-centred and insecure, young man who makes all of life’s most important decisions while on the drink. When drunk, Jack is more irresponsible than ambitious and this behaviour masks his yearning desire to find the ‘right’ woman to love and share his dreams with. But alcohol is a patient predator. When Daniel got out of the lion’s den he didn’t go back for his hat. jack always does.

With the travel of time and the messages he receives from the angels he meets in bars and libraries along the way, Jack finally finds the freedom he seeks. Or does he?

The author, Rob Swales, is an Australian citizen currently living in Switzerland where he is working on his latest fiction manuscript’

About the Author

Rob Swales was born in Murwillumbah near Byron Bay on the east coast of Australia. Until recently he worked and lived in the South Coast of Queensland. Since 1994 he has been writing and performing poetry at the Woodford Folk Festival and similar venues. After a long career in banking he has followed many creative pursuits including facilitating creative writing programs in men’s maximum security prisons and performing a children’s anti bullying show called Speak Up with his wife Jodie. From the Australia Council funding he received to work in the men’s correction centres he published a book of poetry titled ‘The Sweetness of Distortion’.

‘Disappearing Dreams’ is his first full length fiction novel and is loosely based on his own experiences in overcoming alcoholism many years ago and a chance meeting with Kris Kristofferson in 2005. Currently Rob is living in Switzerland with Jodie where he is working on another fiction manuscript.