Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Where do you go to hide from your past, and ultimately yourself?
Mindsight
What you need to know before your trail
Five years ago, Clare killed her family – her husband, her father, and one of her twin sons. She can’t remember anything about the car accident, but there is no refuting the evidence of drugs in her system. Clare has therefore had to accept her guilt, and serve her time.
After her release from prison, the only thing she wants is to reunite with her remaining son, 13-year-old Tommy. To help him come to terms with her crime, and his own survivor guilt, Clare tries to find out the full truth of what happened on that fateful night.
It’s not always a good idea to dig up the past however…
Travel Guide
A place to escape to, a place of strange surroundings and a strange flat. Somewhere to hide. Also known as 1066 country.
“I’d chosen Hastings for my bolthole – but I felt as if as conspicuous as if I wore a convict suite, complete with arrows. I couldn’t forget the publicity around my trial – the photographers. I was even something of a minor celebrity in Holloway Prison at first.”
Hastings here is a bolthole and a strange and empty one at that. The atmosphere is claustrophobic and strange – the sky merges with the sea and everything seems to merge in a haze as Clare tries to make sense of her past as well as her present.
Imaging having to deal with imprisonment and then trying to reconnect with your family – your only surviving son in a new place with new surroundings. This is the unknown – Clare doesn’t really know where she is or what she is going to find out. But she keeps getting flashbacks from her past which propel her forward. No one else can know about what she does so her world is like a bubble, a very small and isolating bubble. Claustrophobic and cold.
Streetview Maps
A) Hastings pier
D) Old Town - Church
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Mindsight
Guide: Chris Curran Destination: Hastings Departure Time : 2000s
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