The Matter of Europe

By Stephanie Percival

?Eleven year old Simeon Isherwood is locked inside himself — can neither walk nor talk. When he undergoes a radical new gene therapy, it seems as though he can finally make contact with the world. But Simeon, used to the tranquility of his inner world, finds himself in agony, the anxiety of new sensations and experiences catching the attention of a mysterious entity — a being god-like and aloof from humanity, which to heal the pain of a young mind it sees as its offspring. When it does, the results are catastrophic.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cinnamon Press
• Release date: May 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781788640879

Stephanie Percival

Stephanie Percival got her break when she was shortlisted for the BBC End of Story competition in 2004. She has continued to write and was shortlisted in the Writers and Artists short story competition, 2013 with ‘You promised me a mocking bird’, and won the Firewords, (in conjunction with Writers & Artists), short story competition in 2016, with ‘The man with no shadow’. The Kim’s Game, which was long-listed by Cinnamon Press in their novel competition, is due to be published in October 2017, and the novella, ‘The Matter’, will be published by Cinnamon Press in 2019.