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For some boys fitting in means standing out. Meet Frank - he isn't like other kids. Intrepid explorer, sartorial connoisseur; he's as strange as he is brilliant. But Frank discovers the hard way that people don't like brilliant, and they hate strange. What Frank longs for - aside from a father - is a friend.

Nature or nurture? The impact of traumatic childhood experiences reverberates into the grown-up world of Frank, Alice and Henry – children from three families suffering the fall-out from their early life. Frank, a working-class boy abused by his step-father. Alice, physically handicapped and frustrated. Henry, the less clever son of wealthy ambitious parents. From a rundown estate in Eastleigh, a small town in Darlington and an affluent Cotswold home, each character grapples with the life fate has handed them.

In 1968 San Francisco, after the Summer of Love, Charlie Foxhawk Carter is assigned to investigate an insurance claim tied to a murder. A childhood friend, a member of a light show group, becomes the primary suspect. A manipulative top secret governmental agency, Foxhawk's former employer, meddles in both the insurance claim and the murder investigation. A hippie beauty asks Foxhawk to 'trust her.' She will untangle Foxhawk and his friends from the mess they are all in. 

One brief moment in time has the ability to alter everything you thought you knew about life. In the blink of an eye, my whole world was thrown off course. No one escapes life without obstacles to overcome. Sometimes these obstacles are outside of our control, and sometimes they are battles within ourselves. This story is my personal journey of how my father’s suicide led me down a path of destruction.

Beim Sex auf der Halde gezeugt, erlebt Frank Goosen eine Kindheit in der orangenen Zeit der Siebziger und eine Jugend in der bleiernen Zeit der Achtziger.

Eine Stadt im Ruhrgebiet. Anfang der 80er Jahre. Helmut ist 16, besucht die Oberstufe eines Gymnasiums, hat Eltern, die nicht miteinander reden und eine Mutter, die immer nur wissen möchte, was er eigentlich will. Vom Leben, zum Beispiel.