About The Butcherbird Tree:
Simon Webb reveals his darkest thoughts and experiences with self-harm to his psychologist, Frank Newman, during their emotional and disturbing sessions together. His descriptions of the brutal nightmares he suffers soon turn out to be more than just terrible dreams and hide a greater power than either of them could ever imagine.
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Author Bio:
My first foray into the world of writing came in the shape of “Covidiots – Stories of Idiotic Acts and Bizarre Behaviour”, co-written by myself and Natalia Gómez Álvarez as we tried to make sense of the way people were reacting to the early throes of the pandemic back in March and April 2020. A light-hearted look at human nature, but with a serious undertone that runs throughout this short compendium of true stories, which we felt we just had to share with the rest of the world.
Then along came my first novel, “The Butcherbird Tree”, released in August 2021. Set in 1994, it tells the story of Simon Webb, an eighteen year-old fighting an internal battle of guilt and self-harm and his conversations with his psychologist. Secret desires, self-effacing feelings, personal and professional doubts and gruesome nightmares all reveal themselves in the emotional meetings between client and therapist, until true meaning of Simon´s dreams become astonishingly clear.
The second novel in the two-part Butcherbird Series is due out in the spring of 2022.