The Wooden Sea

What would happen if, in the middle of a contented, middle-aged life, your seventeen-year-old self suddenly appeared? And what if he said you had done everything wrong? That he didn't like what you've become, the fact that you gave up all those one-time dreams, the way you have taken a life that once belonged to him and made it into something as tame and unimportant as a house pet?

But there's still hope because he's come to help. He's going to show you how to live the rest of your life the right way. Confusing enough? Almost simultaneously you're catapulted forward to the last day of your life. And after seeing how you end, you're brought right back to today - and that seventeen-year-old you.

So you have your now-self, your seventeen-year-old self, and a glimpse of what you're going to be like on the last day of your life. Is this Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'? No, because unlike Scrooge's clear-cut path towards redemption, neither of these yous can agree on what to do next. Worse, someone not of this earth shows you very clearly that the fate of the universe could well be determined by what you decide to do next.

Who, me? . . . Yes, you . . . Now what?

'The Wooden Sea' is about a man on a quest to save the world whose unlikely companions just happen to be himself. And himself. And himself . . .