The Other Side of Night

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The most richly accomplished of the brothers’ pairings to date—and given Connelly’s high standards, that’s saying a lot. A strange, compelling, and ultimately moving head-spinner of a novel' - John Connolly, author of The Furies A real brain bender of a book, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the extraordinary ending. Just mesmerising- bravo Mr Hamdy! -- Victoria Selman A fantastic read. Mind bending, gut wrenchingly tense and one of the most original stories I've read in years. It was an absolute treat. -- John Marrs, author of The One Conservatives, Free Market (20 April 2020). "Getting through the 7 Stages of Pandemic" . Retrieved 13 October 2020.

Then we start reading Harriet Kealty’s story from third person narration accompanied by transcripts of court records, diaries, video records from 11 years later. And we realize the writer of the story: David Asha is presumed dead after his wife lost his battle against cancer. He’s just seen at the edge of the cliff and later he vanished into thin air. They never found his body. So we think he is alive from the beginning to write this story but something tremendously tragic happened to his son Elliot he left behind.

Summary

She meets a man at a bookstore who promises her to provide the video she needs but instead of meeting with a man, she bumps into an old man recently lost his loved one, giving an emotional speech and she realizes there’s a book left at the place where she’s talked with the man. Something is written inside the book: “ Help me. He’s trying to kill me!” Who wrote this? Mind-bending! This intriguing and thought-provoking thriller is a profound exploration of how far some are willing to go in the name of love. A fantastic twist you’ll never see coming’ – Liv Constantine, author of The First Shot The plot is complicated, but it involves a disgraced police officer, an eleven-year-old boy, an author, and a mysterious man. All of whom are connected in ways one couldn’t imagine. With its genre-bending plot, nuanced characters, and dramatic locations, THE OTHER SIDE OF NIGHT seems perfect for film or television adaptation. What parts of the novel might be challenging to adapt to screen? Who would you cast as the main characters? What details would you hope the adaptation kept? The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy is the story of a father, David Asha, an author who shares the story of how he came to be separated from his son Elliot, in his new book. It is also a story of his son, a boy who loses his father soon after his mother dies from cancer. It is also the story of Ben Elmys, a family friend and colleague of the Ashas, who is responsible for Elliot's care after his parents are gone.

A big-hearted, big-brain, novel that you'll finish in three days and think about for the rest of the year. Wonderful. -- Stuart Turton To start, the publisher has asked to keep things on the hush-hush side in terms of plot, but to set the stage at least...We begin by meeting David Asha, who is reeling from the loss of his son Elliot. He warns the tale he is about to tell will sound like fiction, but is entirely true. After this initial intro, we meet Harriet "Harri" Kealty, a former police officer who has had to leave the profession after a tragic mistake during her time on the force. This blow leaves her without purpose, but things seem to take a turn for the better when she meets Ben Elmys, a stranger with a poetic soul who sparks her attention immediately. They begin a courtship, but Harri is devastated when Ben breaks it off and is left puzzling as to what she did wrong. In The Other Side of Night, Adam Hamdy explores what people are willing to sacrifice for love, and the subsequent regret felt about the choices that are made. Harriet Kealty is a key to this story. In an impulsive moment during her job as a police officer, she makes a mistake and loses her job in disgrace. She didn't do what she's been accused of doing and she wants to clear her name. During this time she meets Ben Elmys and knows he's the one after just two dates. Her heart is broken when he breaks up with her on the third date. Is it Harri that is the problem? Is her thinking so far off that she can't make any right decisions?A: I’ve been working on THE OTHER SIDE OF NIGHT for five years and the tone was one of the last elements to come to me. I woke up one night with David Asha’s voice in my head, rolled over and switched on the lamp to scrawl what is now chapter 61 in a notepad I keep by my bed. Once I had David’s tone, the rest of the book fell into place. I owe an extra thanks to my wife, who has never once complained when the light goes on at an uncivilized hour. In the end, what I thought was a weird story about a creepy murderer, became a touching story that tests the limits of time.

A marketer at Atria recommended going in blind to this book. I also think it’s really hard to describe anyway, so on that point, I’ll tell you how it made me feel. With David Asha’s opening about his son, Elliott, I developed a lump in my throat. When I met Harri, a former police officer, I moved to the edge of my seat, as she embarked on an investigation that was important to her for many reasons.A strange, compelling, and ultimately moving head-spinner of a novel’ - John Connolly, author of The Furies Next, we step into the life of Harriet Kealty, a police officer trying to clear her name after a lapse of judgment. She discovers a curious inscription in a secondhand book—a plea: Help me, he’s trying to kill me. Who wrote this note? Who is “he”? Hold onto your sanity. This psychological thriller will keep you wondering which strange details are real and which emerge from the minds of the characters. The lonely boy, the disgraced police officer, the bizarre scientist--each has a dark secret, and a dark problem to solve. The Other Side of Night is imaginative and thought-provoking, fiction at its best' -- Mike and Kathleen Gear This is my son’s story. I have no doubt it will be sold as fiction, but rest assured every word that follows is true. This is one of those books where to give something away is to give everything away. There’s a core idea here that underpins the story and in consequence nothing makes sense until suddenly it all does. So I’m going to provide scant detail of the plot so that I don’t trip over my own words and spoil it for future readers.

Describe the relationship between Ben and Elliott. In light of the revelation later in the novel, what do you think of the way they treat one another?This is also the story of Harriet “Harri” Kealty a disgraced police officer who loses her job after being unable to prove her innocence when she is wrongfully accused in a case-related incident . Harri finds a cryptic message in a book she finds in a library sale – a message that leads her to Elliot and his guardian Ben Elmys, a man with whom she once dreamed of a future. Her subsequent investigation into the Asha family and Ben results in her fate becoming inextricably linked to the lives of those she is investigating. Q: Did you explore other scientific methods for Ben to help the Ashas? Why did you land on the cave as the location for where the big moment happens? After the revelations I’m rounding up my 4.5 stars to 5 sci-fi, starry, mysterious, poignant love story stars! It's impossible to say much more because it's a secret that can't be told. Ben knows the secret and so does Elliot. Ben is Elliot's guardian when Harri meets him again, months after he broke up with her and she no longer thinks Ben is as wonderful, anymore. I only understand part of what follows but it is still interesting and kept me going to end of the story...a very strange story. Ben Elmys: once the love of her life. A surrogate father to Elliot Asha and trusted friend to the Ashas.