Choppiness on High Seas
by Arvind Wadhera
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Pub Date Jan 28 2025 | Archive Date Oct 10 2025
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Description
A compelling rags to riches, literary story set in London that tackles the duality of fortune and misfortune. The story follows protagonist Matthew Stephens as he works his way to the top of the business world but soon realises there is an ugly side to being wealthy.
Being born into poverty and hardship in 1930s London, Matthew’s life was one of relentless struggle. One inadvertent act in defence of his mother would haunt his conscience forever.
Matthew’s journey takes him from the poverty of a cold stone granary to the opulence of Mayfair and Kensington Palace Gardens, where he starts a family of his own. Despite working his way to the top of the business world, he remains an outsider to London’s elite. He then realises that that same elite has an ugly underbelly. High society was a hot bed of depravity.
Will he correct society’s wrongs? Will the man who never succumbed to expectations be able to challenge his own destiny or will he simply accept the futility of it all?
Advance Praise
"This book moved me to tears; the capacity of Arvind Wadhera to intermesh complex shipping industry matters in a cool capitalist business-like manner, with the trials and tribulations of life in poverty and emergence from it to portray with his own unique style, the trials and tribulations of the human condition, is masterful beyond belief. Arvind Wadhera intertwines the rise out of poverty of the central character Matthew Stephens to great riches, but what is wealth without the ones you love? The issues of the spiritual transcend the daily physical lives of us all, when all you are left with is with the question: Who am I, Did I live well? The book takes you on a unique path, and Arvind Wadhera has a unique style: the simplicity of the text itself is transensory, taking us across the oceans to a new height, from which there is only relief in the transcendental and that which no longer 'is'. I couldn't put it down and I highly recommend it! - willobookworm
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781836281337 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 304 |
