Absees: 3 books

Can you earn respect and love within your own family if you cannot provide them with more than bare survival? Are there any ethical and moral boundaries you would not cross, any humiliation you would not bear, while trying to make enough money to enable your child to build a life better than yours?...

Mantle Convection is a thoughtful novel, with moving insight into the hard choices encountered as an identity and life are carved out in the sometimes harsh world. The dilemmas affect personal development in this unique blend of curiosity about the human spirit. Mark’s lonely and emotionally painful...

Clive is contentedly middle-aged, an engineer who wants to turn to a slower-paced, settled and peaceful life with his wife in their much-loved, inherited city apartment, which they consider to be their castle, their bubble, and which they plan to never leave. He and Mary live a happy and self-contained...