Exposure

If you could live your life over again, knowing what you know now, do you really think you could change it? Gabriel Fortune - self styled loser and weirdo, messes up his exams and fails to get a girl. One November night he goes for a walk over the hills and doesn't come back. But it's not the end. The afterlife is a journey through extravagant, inexplicable and yet oddly familiar landscapes, peopled by settlers and lost souls and travellers like himself, looking for a place to rest. What's more, Gabriel learns that the dead can choose to stay or to return to live their lives again. Carrying vague memories of the past the dead can go back and try again. Exposure is the first of four volumes of the novel Fruition - four very different variations on the same life seen from the vantage points of four intervening afterlives. Fruition is a love story, an epic journey and a tragicomic meditation on the meaning of success, and the possibility of happiness in this life.