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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Beautiful Fall
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'Read this now. Right now. Don’t even think of going near that door. Not until you know what’s going on. Your name is Robert Penfold. Age 31. The apartment you’re standing in is your home.

'Every 179 days Robbie forgets everything. He knows this because last time it happened he wrote himself a letter explaining it. The disorientation. The fear. The bizarre circumstances imposed by the rare neurological condition he lives with.

'To survive the forgetting—to cope with his recurring loss of identity—Robbie leads a solitary, regimented life. Lives alone. Speaks to no one if he can avoid it. Works to complete a strange herculean task set for him by his former self.

'And then, with twelve days left before his next forgetting, Julie invades his life. Young, beautiful—the only woman he can ever remember meeting.

'As the hour draws near, Robbie is forced to confront the fact that his past is very different from how he had imagined it. And when Julie reveals her own terrible secret, he must find a way to come to terms with the truth about himself.

'The Beautiful Fall is a cinematic, page-turning romance. Both an intriguing puzzle and a compulsively readable love story, it will sweep you away.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication :

    For Kylie

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2021 .
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      Extent: 349p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 4 May 2021
      ISBN: 9781922330543
Alternative title: The Beautiful Fall : Die vollkommen irritierende Kettenreaktion der Liebe
Language: German
    • Munich,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Limes Verlag ,
      2023 .
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      Extent: 288p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 27 September 2023.
      ISBN: 9783809027706

Works about this Work

Fantasies and Flaws New Novels by Hugh Breakey, Kim Lock, and Sophie Overett Elizabeth Bryer , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 435 2021; (p. 21-22)

— Review of The Beautiful Fall Hugh Breakey , 2021 single work novel ; The Other Side of Beautiful Kim Lock , 2021 single work novel ; The Rabbits Sophie Overett , 2021 single work novel
Fantasies and Flaws New Novels by Hugh Breakey, Kim Lock, and Sophie Overett Elizabeth Bryer , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 435 2021; (p. 21-22)

— Review of The Beautiful Fall Hugh Breakey , 2021 single work novel ; The Other Side of Beautiful Kim Lock , 2021 single work novel ; The Rabbits Sophie Overett , 2021 single work novel
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