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Pale Pieces

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Pub Date Sep 06 2025 | Archive Date Mar 31 2026


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Description

Having hesitantly accepted an invitation to take a train to unknown ends, things steadily blur into a hazy period of reflection, uncertainty, mild amusement and questionable events, accompanied by standard ongoing psychological turmoil.

And the attempted salvation at both an individual and collective level, through wavering philosophies and strained companionship, appears that which might allow the travellers to persevere and perhaps see an end to the mysterious journey they'd found themselves upon.

A work of psychological literary fiction, this contemplative narrative combines a light-hearted informal tone and dry humour with more sober underlying commentary on human psychology and philosophy. For those who enjoy quiet intensity, irony, intimate workings of the mind, and a little absurdity.

Having hesitantly accepted an invitation to take a train to unknown ends, things steadily blur into a hazy period of reflection, uncertainty, mild amusement and questionable events, accompanied by...


Advance Praise

"A fascinating novel, dealing with human perception and insight, the effect of memory and the moving delineation between the real and the unreal." — Jill Murphy, The Bookbag

"Stevens’s quaint, poetic prose adds to the surreal quality of the happenings on the train, and the narrator’s focus on trivial moments lends an underlying humorous vein..." — Publishers Weekly

“A haunting, often humorous meditation offering profound and unsettling beauty.” — BlueInk Review

"A fascinating novel, dealing with human perception and insight, the effect of memory and the moving delineation between the real and the unreal." — Jill Murphy, The Bookbag

"Stevens’s quaint, poetic...


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ISBN 9782959675706
PRICE £12.99 (GBP)
PAGES 230

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