Neil Randall is delighted to reveal the cover for his forthcoming novel The Professional Mourner (Dark Winter Press), Part One of The Yugoslav Trilogy. Now scheduled for release on the 5th of May, more digitally inclined readers are advised that the Kindle version of the book can be pre-ordered on the 28th of April.
Here's a taste of the book from the back cover blurb:
From a baby girl who wouldn’t stop crying to a professional mourner with the fate of an entire nation in her hands.
When Milica Stanković is born, she won't stop crying. The neighours complain, her
father is demoted at work, and the family are treated like pariahs. Regardless,
they see something special in their daughter, how she seems possessed of a rare
gift: to feel other people’s pain and suffering as if it’s her own.
Her father and a wily confidence
trickster dream up a plot to hire out Milica’s services as a professional
mourner. At many funerals, Milica expresses such raw emotion, it reduces the
other mourners to fits of sobs, enabling to finally release all their
bottled-up grief.
When word of her gifts
reaches a high-ranking government official, he desperately wants to obtain her
services. Their ailing leader is not only gravely ill, but his popularity has
never been lower. If the Party can organise an emotionally charged state
funeral, they might just be able to uplift the nation’s spirits.
If you want to learn more about Neil's published work, why not head over to his Amazon page.
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