The Twenty-Five Deeds of Hanson Drake - Softcover

Esme, Briar Kit

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493653393 ISBN 13: 9781493653393

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

THE LIFE AND WORDS OF HANSON DRAKE 'It isn't all just kismet. Some of it is serendipity. Some of it is sagacity. A lot of it is doing the right thing simply because we can. The difference between those who don't and those who do, is that those who do, do. It doesn't get any more complicated than that.' BLURBHanson Drake has five hundred million in the bank and a house on the beach overlooking the ocean. As the writer of the world's favourite song, he hasn't had to do a day's work in his life. Stung into action by a derisive article in a national newspaper, Hanson Drake decides to change his life by becoming a volunteer at a country house. He vows to do at least one good deed every day in the twenty-four days leading up to Christmas in the hope of securing salvation and redemption for his wasteful life. In helping others, he finally understands his place in the universe as he learns to celebrate the ordinariness and eccentricities of the people he meets. But what does fate have planned for Hanson Drake? NOTESThe Twenty-Five Deeds of Hanson Drake is Christmas story set during Advent. The novel can be enjoyed at anytime of the year, but it makes a perfect Christmas read between 30 November and 25 December. Buy the HANSON DRAKE paperback and get the Kindle version free. REVIEWSHANSON DRAKE is a fantastic Christmas novel. It is right up there with A Christmas Carol and It's A Wonderful Life in setting the mood for the holiday season. I laughed and cried, sometimes on the same page. I loved this book! It was so easy to get into and I really liked Hanson Drake. I can highly recommend Briar Kit Esme's "25 Deeds of Hanson Drake." Just finished reading it; highly enjoyable and thought provoking. Briar Kit, I loved your rich, elegant and amusing style. I liked your characters a lot, and could even feel some sympathy for a rich person who tries to appear poor (the exact opposite of me...). Thank you very much for this gift! I'm not sure if I just read an advent story or a craft

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INTRODUCTION, November 2016Nearly three years have passed since I wrote "Hanson Drake". Three years, and more than eight million readers. Three years, and more than a million letters and emails sent from people around the world asking questions about Hanson Drake’s life.What can I possibly tell them? Tell you?BLURBHanson Drake has five hundred million in the bank and a house on the beach overlooking the ocean. As the writer of the world’s favourite song, he hasn’t had to do a day’s work in his life.Stung into action by a derisive article in a national newspaper, Hanson Drake decides to change his life by becoming a volunteer at a country house.He vows to do at least one good deed every day in the twenty-four days leading up to Christmas, hoping to secure salvation and redemption for his wasteful life.In helping others—and learning to celebrate the ordinariness and eccentricities of the people he meets—he finally understands his place in the universe.But what does fate have planned for Hanson Drake?

About the Author:

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
London-born author Briar Kit Esme is best known for the prescient and allegorical novel The Twenty-Five Deeds of Hanson Drake. Published in 2013, the story follows the enigmatic songwriting starman Hanson Drake—a fictionalised stand-in for the late David Bowie (1947–2016)—during the final weeks of his life. Through critical and popular acclaim, Hanson Drake has attracted favourable comparisons with a number of award-winning novels, including Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, for its simple feel-good narrative; Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News, for its epigrammatic literary style; and Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World, for its wide-ranging philosophical ideas.

Briar Kit is also the author of the operatic plaria Hathaway—Eight Arias For A Bardic Life, written to mark the quatercentenary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616. Commissioned as a co-production for Helios Collective, Buxton Opera, and Copenhagen Opera, Hathaway received its much-lauded world premiere at Buxton Festival in 2016.

Briar Kit now publishes under noms de plume, while also working as a scriptwriter and librettist for opera, music, theatre, film, and television companies, and as a ghostwriter, editor, and consultant for world-renowned authors.

Contact via Briar Kit’s website at briarkitesme.wordpress.com

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1493653393
• ISBN 13: 9781493653393
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 210