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This is the the official website of author P J Cowlam, whose new book Marisa, a novella, is published by CentreHouse Press.

>>About  Marisa

Bruce is head of a financial consultancy firm founded by his father in the 1970s. We first find him as a young man, learning the business. At the same time, what has been a frivolous liaison with his friend Marisa Rae begins to deepen and intensify. However, the relationship gradually falls apart as Bruce moves further into the world of commerce and Marisa’s left-wing views lead her towards a radical feminism.

Some twenty-five years after these events, a chance entry in one of Bruce’s business listings shows that Marisa is now boss of the Rae Agency – a media PR concern. Bruce, as he recollects their partnership, is torn between his staid if harmonious family life, with his marriage to Henrietta, and renewing contact with Marisa. Finally, when he does decide on a course of action, he has to face the truth of not having grasped the widening cultural and social separation their two very different views of the world have wrought over the intervening quarter century or more.

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‘…extraordinarily mature and assured… The narrative moves at a gentle pace, but carries the reader into an intricate psychological and profound journey that has similarities with early Hermann Hesse…’ Malcolm Stern, co-presenter UK Channel 4’s Made For Each Other.