Son: Part One

Son: Part One

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It is 1842.Two Englishman set out on a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East.One is a young, gifted artist; the other a Gentleman.

By the time they Clutch Component return to England, the artist has become a devotee of the Egyptian god Osiris.One night, after dining together in a small inn in Cobham, he violently murders his beloved father, believing him to be an imposter.Why? Son is a novel inspired by the life of Richard Dadd, one of the greatest Victorian painters and inmate of Bethlem Hospital - more commonly known King Panel Bed as Bedlam.

Part Two of Son will be published in Portal vol.2, no.1, January 2005.