My First Pages - 'Now We Are Forgiven'

Every week I post the first page of one of my books, in order of publication. Why? It gives me pleasure.

‘Now We Are Forgiven’ , published 2022, is my tenth and last novel, and the third in the trilogy that began with ‘White City Blue’.

When I started writing about Frankie Blue, I was consciously trying to ape the Everyman, Rabbit Angstrom, in the Updike tetralogy. Frankie is an estate agent, Rabbit is a car salesman. I wanted to reproduce the progress of …