The Juggler
Mark has a wife and child, good friends and a good job. What he doesn’t have is a life...
..until the night a stranger mistakenly hands him £40,000 as he walks home from a comedy club. Seizing the moment Mark takes the money and disappears. He jumps on a train and takes a journey into the unknown, hoping to leave behind the deep-seated feeling of worthlessness and dissatisfaction that has crowded him throughout his life.
Turning up at a nameless town, Mark quickly makes friends. Thinking he has reached the destination of his new life, Mark soon realises that though his physical journey has ended, his psychological journey has only just begun.
As events spin out of control, Mark is left trapped in a never ending cycle of doubt and delusion. Only when Mark learns to take responsibility for the bizarre and unexpected consequences of his actions can he truly reach his journeys end and discover the answers he’s been looking for.
The Juggler blurs both the boundaries of consensus ‘reality’ and psychological reality as we follow Mark’s literal journey and metaphorical voyage into the mysterious and fascinating sphere of the human psyche.
Nothing is ever fully explained and as each chapter finishes the reader is drawn further and further into Beaumont’s spellbinding story of one man’s struggle to break the cycle of his mechanical existence in the face of his own skewed perspective. But will he ever break the cycle and face up to the responsibility of his choices?
Sebastian Beaumont was born and raised in Scotland. He graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a degree in Creative Arts, majoring in Creative Writing.
He lives in Brighton where he works in private practice as a psychotherapeutic counsellor. His surreal, psychological thriller, Thirteen, was launched in September 2006 attracting a cult following among readers and critics alike.
The Juggler by Sebastian Beaumont is published by Myrmidon £7.99