Why a Booktrail?
Such an unusual yet very satisfying book that reveals more questions that it answers. The journey across the Nile, Congo, Uganda etc is only the start for the real journey is the moral one the characters take.
The Coincidence Authority
What you need to know before your trail
The story of two lost souls – Azalea Lewis, a foundling child discovered at a travelling fair in Cornwall and Thomas Post who looks for patterns in a haphazard world.
As you might expect, it’s a very quirky tale – philosopher who prides himself on being a great authority on the subject of coincidences and the girl who thinks her life is nothing but a series of them. but when Azalea questions whether coincidence and fate are the same thing then this is when the story really gets interesting. For what is fate? Can she explain to Post what she means? Can Post show her what he sees? Who is right? And what is the chance of them agreeing?
Fate, dear reader, is quite literally in your hands with this book
Travel Guide
The book starts in Cornwall at the Cornish fair, where Azalea is found and then adopted before ending up in Africa, where she soon becomes involved in the horrible and devastating civil wars. Once in England she meets a university lecturer who specialises in Coincidences.
Azalea’s childhood, and the time she spent in Uganda is the most brutally evoked part of the story we think. But this is not a story of Africa but rather being a story about Africa.
Wherever you go and wherever you travel, the story is an attempt to find non-randomness in a random world. Is there a God pulling strings like a puppet master in the sky? Is anything we do determined at birth? Is there such a thing as fate?
Is free will when living and travelling really just an illusion?
Where Next?
