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Cave
Cave
Cave
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Cave

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Marty is trapped down a cave beneath the Welsh mountains. Will his life begin at forty – or will it end?

Newly single and reunited with old friends from university, Marty finds life is no longer as idyllic as his memories of hot summers, music festivals and recreational drugs. He is persuaded to resume his hobby of caving, and, while twisted relationships play out on the surface, he descends into the strange and beautiful world of caverns and stalactites, where ghosts from the past are waiting to haunt him. But the others have secrets too - and as they are revealed, Marty unknowingly walks into danger.

Cave is a coming of age adventure, spanning twenty years of friendships and relationships. Set in Wales at the turn of the millennium.

This book has enjoyed considerable success and sales during 2011. It is still available for download and POD print although it is not currently being actively advertised or promoted.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAli Cooper
Release dateApr 8, 2011
ISBN9780956481139
Cave
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Ali Cooper

I'm a singer/songwriter/guitarist and I teach guitar. I currently live in rural Devon - came here for the solar eclipse and stayed! I have degrees in psychology and archaeology (I'm already published in archaeology non-fiction) and these subjects tend to crop up in my writing. The Girl on the Swing is my first novel to make it into print. It's published by Standing Stone Press in association with Year Zero Writers collective. It's also available in print with Amazon, B & N, Waterstones etc in US and UK.

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    Cave is about Marty. Marty is a bit of an idiot. What's more if he isn't careful he's going to be a dead idiot. As the story opens, he is trapped in the entrance to a cave, injured, frightened and alone, with no chance of rescue and no immediately obvious way out. At first even the reason for him to be marooned there isn't immediately clear.As the events unfold, Marty tries various ways to get to safety and when each ends in failure he returns to the same spot to take stock and plan the next one. He's plucky, and if he's going to go down, he's definitely going down in flames. As he carefully rations his food and plans each attempt to get to safety he is prompted to think through events and aspects of his recent life, taking the reader through them with him.It took me a couple of chapters to get into this book because, initially, I didn't like Marty. It is clear, at the start, that for a large portion of his life he's been a total git.However, I am glad I kept going (I whizzed through Cave in a couple of days in the end) because as I began understand Marty's personal development I began to like him a lot more. He is unfailingly honest with himself and as he starts to face up to his faults he seems vulnerable and human in a way that makes many of his less attractive traits forgiveable. He wants to make sense of his emotions and relationships but he doesn't always get it right. This is an appealing flaw, too. His character development is subtle and beautifully drawn and as the book progressed I found that, underneath the vacuous exterior, lay a far deeper and more rounded personality than I'd expected. The quality of the writing is excellent, indeed, the denoument, while it works perfectly well, is effective, first and foremost, because the author has the writing skill to carry it off. I read the e-book, which was very well presented and I didn't spot any typos.A cracking book, thoroughly recommended.

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