In the Clearing Stands a Boxer

All in all, Felix is a striking character; A strikingly exquisite baby who grows into a strikingly beautiful man, a strikingly clever child who matures into a strikingly erudite adult. But Felix is also acutely unhappy, and has always been that way as far as he can recall. Upon finding himself orphaned as a teenager Felix sets out to follow his intuition in search of an answer to the trick the universe has seemingly played on him. His journey in search of the truth and its inherent beauty begins as a philosophical and spiritual one, taking him through some of the great cities of Europe before depositing him in London, where he is eventually forced to abandon his quest for any answers in favour of the transient comfort of interminable sexual conquests.The only dependable constant in his life remains his love of boxing, but when even that trust is betrayed he instinctively flees to his childhood home in Lancashire, only to finally unearth a genuine truth and perhaps one too awful for him to bear.