The Space Between Things

Author(s): Charlie Hill

Location(s): Birmingham, Moseley

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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How far would you go to win the love of a woman? Arch, a wannabe poet living in a bohemian Birmingham suburb, likes to party and has no time for love or seriousness. Then he meets the mysterious Vee. They have a one-night stand and she leaves him the next day with a challenge: throw yourself into the world and its possibilities. Discovering that Vee has gone to Croatia to photograph the war, Arch begins to expand his horizons. As the government clamps down on road protesters, new age travellers and the free festival scene, he throws himself into the subsequent campaign of civil disobedience. But will it be enough for the returning Vee? The Space Between Things is a satirical love story set in the social turmoil of the early 1990 s. It is the first fictionalised account of the road protest movement.

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What I like very much about this novel is that it vividly captures a moment in Britain’s recent past, and takes us inside a world and a milieu which most readers won’t have known...

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Drugs, Sex – and Protest

Author: tripfiction

The Space Between Things opens on 22nd November 1990 – the day that Margaret Thatcher resigns. And it takes one back perfectly to that time… Arch is smitten by Vee at a celebratory party, and their story is one...

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Glimpse of a different side of the U.K.

Author: StephMWard

The Space Between Things by Charlie Hill is as much a glimpse of a time and place as it is a snapshot of a character. During a drastic change in the English political system in the early 90s, a...

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