Keith Pearson

Imagine if you could travel back in time and relive one weekend as your sixteen year-old self - would you change anything? Everything wrong with Craig Pelling's life can be traced back to 1986 and the moment he popped in to a newsagent for a can of Coke. Now in his mid-forties, all he has to look back on is twenty-five years of marriage to a woman he doesn't love and an unfulfilled career selling electrical goods. He could have been so much more, achieved so much more. But as bitter as Craig feels about his mundane existence, fate hasn't finished with him yet. A series of unfortunate events pushes the hapless Craig to breaking point as his life crumbles around him. All looks lost until he's thrown a lifeline - the miraculous lifeline of a brief trip back to 1986, to relive one weekend as his sixteen year-old self. Will he be able to change his future for the better? Is it as simple as just reverting one decision he made over thirty years ago? Craig is about to find out.

The '86 Fix

Imagine if you could travel back in time and relive one weekend as your sixteen year-old self - would you change anything? Everything wrong with Craig Pelling's life can be traced back to 1986 and the moment he popped in to a newsagent for a can of Coke. Now in his mid-forties, all he has to look back on is twenty-five years of marriage to a woman he doesn't love and an unfulfilled career selling electrical goods. He could have been so much more, achieved so much more. But as bitter as Craig feels about his mundane existence, fate hasn't finished with him yet. A series of unfortunate events pushes the hapless Craig to breaking point as his life crumbles around him. All looks lost until he's thrown a lifeline - the miraculous lifeline of a brief trip back to 1986, to relive one weekend as his sixteen year-old self. Will he be able to change his future for the better? Is it as simple as just reverting one decision he made over thirty years ago? Craig is about to find out. A future best-seller in the making - early readers are loving 'The '86 Fix'... "If you lived through the 1980s and love a good story, you MUST put this on your reading list." "One of those rare books that will keep you turning pages way beyond bedtime." "I absolutely love this book! It's made me laugh out loud, mourn my past youth and be thankful for what I have." "Thoroughly enjoyable and a refreshing change to the type of books I usually go for." "Absolutely loved it and read it in one sitting, even though I finished it at 2am on a work night." "This is a book for people who don't usually read sci-fi or time-travel books. It's a book for people who enjoy a dollop of British nostalgia, and a good laugh. Above all else though, it's a book for people who want a real page-turner. If you want a book you can't put down, this is it." "I laughed a lot, cried a little and nearly wet myself at the end." "Witty, clever, and a bit brilliant!"

A miraculous tale of debts, threats, and a dead man in double denim.Beth Baxter is in serious trouble, and not of her own making. All seems lost until she receives an offer of help from an unlikely visitor - a former gangland fixer by the name of Clement. However, there's one minor issue. Clement claims he's been dead since 1975 and has been sent to help Beth as penance for his previous misdemeanours.With just seven days to avoid a fate she'd rather not contemplate, Beth reluctantly joins her deluded, politically-incorrect companion on a quest across London in search of a solution. Will this unlikely partnership succeed? Will Clement ever come to terms with paying five quid for a pint? And will Beth ever learn the truth about who sent Clement?

Who Sent Clement?

The concluding installment of the acclaimed time-travel novel. To read the first installment, search for 'The '86 Fix' on Amazon. After his miraculous weekend in 1986, Craig Pelling returned to a future he could never have envisaged. Even by his own hapless standards, his plans have spectacularly backfired. Everything he tried to fix is now broken, and a bleak, lonely existence is all Craig has to look forward to. Does he face that future, or does he try to seek answers? Either way, an emotional rollercoaster ride beckons. Can Craig can find closure before it ends? Or does fate have a few more twists in store for him, beyond Broadhall?

The '86 Fix Conclusion

Beyond Broadhall

Ruth leaves Wales to serve the war effort, firstly in Cardiff and then in Blackpool. But the moment she meets Edward who is on the rebound from Sarah, she is out of her depth and unable to resist his advances.Ruth visits a gypsy who tells her; "In your life you will have the blessing of many children but you will endure lifelong sadness. I can see the life you have yet to live and I warn you now, you will go through life seeing children in your shadow." She warns Ruth; "You will walk many paths in your life but before the sun sets every day you will see those children in your shadow."

Children In Her Shadow

Ruth's death in nineteen ninety-four surfaces a long held suspicion from within her family that she had many secrets, especially about her much guarded younger life. Speculation heightens when Mary Morgan, a friend from her youth arrives at her death bed. Mary will become the custodian of Ruth's secrets; charged with finding the three children Ruth abandoned when they were infants. A notification in the personal column of The Times brings Ruth's abandoned children face to face with her life story as they uncover the shocking truth about their mother. But in the end, there is one final twist.

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