A Corroded Soul

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I'm a BAFTA-nominated investigations journalist turned novelist. That's not strictly true. Novelist suggests everything I write is a product of my twisted imagination. The truth is that some of my first book, A Corroded Soul, really happened. I won't tell you which bits for fear of being sued. Or becoming a social pariah. You'll have to come along for the ride to discover why. WARNING. Buckle up. It might get bumpy. 

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SUMMARY

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Daniel Connah’s mother is dead. Thank God. 

But there’s a problem. Who’s going to explain why the fifty-year-old journalist is socially inadequate, addicted to sex, and steals − among other character flaws. 

His domineering and possibly deranged mother, Muriel, might be accountable. But that lets his milksop father Jim, who couldn’t even kill himself properly, off the hook. And then there’s Daniel. Is he to blame? Or was he just caught in the crossfire between warring parents?

Made or born bad is the issue.   

At the core of this often darkly comic story about family dynamics and what makes us who we are, is whether Muriel loved Daniel. Otherwise, what chance has he got of loving himself or anyone else?  

A last walk round the Nottinghamshire village where he grew up provides insight though ultimately, Daniel finds resolution in the most unlikely of places.       

A Corroded Soul, the first in a planned trilogy, is about morality, regret, and the perverse nature of grief. Based on his own life, author and journalist Peter Woolrich blends fact and fiction in this searing self-exploration.

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