Angels Cry, Too

Mark Garrett

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Why I wrote this book

I’ve always loved the written word and had great encouragement from my old junior school headmaster. Senior school did its best to beat fiction out of me, but never succeeded. I wrote poetry and short stories for pleasure for many years, but was always waiting for that stimulus to write a novel length work. It wasn’t because I didn’t have ideas it was just putting them down. A chance meeting with a lovely girl at an old car rally (I’ve never seen her since and I’m certain she must’ve been my guardian angel giving me the prompt) finally gave me the impetus and plot lines necessary to write Angels Cry Too back in 1992.
Angels Cry Too is an adult fantasy thriller that contains adult themes, taking the reader into a darker world that thrives on evil, yet is undone by good and love. Here the central character has his feet grounded in the real world yet has to come to terms with what lies just out of reach of the norm. It may have a fantasy element, but reality plays more than a large part in the story and has the reader thinking about how they would deal with such disturbing challenges if they were faced with them.
Angels Cry Too is not a ‘heavy’ read, but isn’t forgotten easily either. I’ve been told this often by readers. It’s a thriller, but not ‘cops and robbers’. It’s dark but has its lighter moments too. Want a slice of fantasy but don’t want wizards, spells and dragons on every other page? If you take it to its roots, Angels Cry Too is a simple story of good against evil, yet its twists and turns reveal surprises and the hint that not everything and everyone are what you think they might be.

Synopsis

Paul Sayers is an ordinary man, living an average life in the Fens. A first meeting with Rebecca turns out not to be chance, as he'd supposed, but the start of a succession of life-changing events. Rebecca guides Paul through a car accident safely, an accident in which he was supposed to die... but her subsequent disappearance forces him to conclude that she is his guardian angel.

After a lonely year his dreams start to be haunted by vivid nightmares, and he senses something is dreadfully wrong. Days later he is visited by another angel, who tells him that Rebecca has been taken by a group of beings whose only desire is to bring devastation to the guardians.

Paul sets out to find Rebecca, but the path is fraught with danger. Will he succedd in finding Rebecca, and can he overcome the evil that haunts him? And can life ever be normal again?

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About the Author

Mark Garrett was born and raised in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, where he still lives. Married, aged 42, when not writing for pleasure his real occupation is that of chauffeur for a carriage master, providing limousine services, mainly to the funeral trade.

Like the main character in Angels Cry Too, Mark enjoys 'playing' with classic cars, having owned a 1951 Morris Oxford for over twenty years. He is currently restoring a Lancia sports car. He also owned a Wolseley 6/80, as in the book, at one time.

Has written as a relaxing pastime for over fifteen years, and this book is a first foray into the world of publishing. It is hoped that further work with the characters in Angels Cry Too will follow.

Other interests include fell walking and observing the night sky. Mark is also studying with the the Open University for a degree in Natural Science.

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