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Blindsided Paperback – April 11, 2020

by Julian Edge (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
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Sardinia: Beautiful landscapes, fascinating history and a unique blend of cultures. For Ralph and Clare, a working holiday also offers an opportunity to get their marriage back on track.
Then a chance meeting with Tex and Cass provides new companions on their tour of the island.
But how easy is it to tell welcome short-cuts from dangerous diversions, misunderstandings from deceptions and bad luck from betrayal?
And finally, when everyday existence turns on life-or-death decisions, what does it take to become the hero of your own story?
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    298 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    April 11, 2020
  4. Dimensions
    5.06 x 0.75 x 7.81 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1913653218
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1913653217
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Michael Terence Publishing
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 11, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1913653218
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1913653217
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 0.75 x 7.81 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

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Julian Edge

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My latest (2021) novel is “Loving Country: An English Girl in Austin TX.” It’s a Romance, featuring lots of Country Music, fast cars, jealousy and false accounts. Oh, and a happy ending, because, round about now, I think we all deserve one.

If you compare that to “Blindsided” (2020), an international thriller, and “Satisfaction in Times of Anger" (2017), a UK-based crime story, you’ll see that I like to write in different genres.

As an author, I am intrigued by the way characters emerge to take control of what was just an idea and turn it into a story. I want readers to care about those characters, about what happens to them, and perhaps about an underlying issue, too. Those elements are common to all genres.

The background issue in “Loving Story” is where individuals see the borderline between caring for someone and controlling them. “Satisfaction in Times of Anger” asks how, when people hurt you, you can avoid simply being reduced to a victim. “Blindsided” wonders what lengths a character will go to, or not, in order to be the hero of their own story. Most important, of course, is to have a cracking tale that makes you care about what happens to the people in it.

Previously, I was involved in English language teacher education and personal/professional development. I see "Continuing Cooperative Development" (2002) and "The Reflexive Teacher Educator" (2011) as my main contributions to those fields. From now on, however, it's the truths of fiction that motivate me to keep writing. What happens just beyond what we know? I mean, out there where you can imagine yourself …

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  • Mark A. Clarke
    5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2020
    The novel is propulsive, a confident and creative tale with a dark, brooding undertone. The plot is compelling, the sort of thing that might happen to anyone as the result of a generous impulse gone horribly wrong. The characters are engaging, and the exchanges among the four very different characters crackle with wit and concealed meaning. The central mystery is not resolved until the last page.

    The four principals are equally intriguing and each has his or her time in the spotlight, but it is the narrator Ralph who commands our attention as he struggles to negotiate both his understanding of his relationship to the others and his grasp of the increasingly complex and potentially dangerous events that seem to be unfolding willy-nilly in front of him. He stumbles along, giving everyone the benefit of the doubt except himself, as one surprise follows another, and the reader struggles to keep up. At the end of the book, one can be forgiven for staring silently out the window before re-entering reality.

    Blindsided is a novel about the complex process of coming to judgment, of bringing order and partial clarity to the daily confusions of life, love, and commitment. In confronting his own failings, Ralph is also obliged to take a hard look at the forces that have shaped his life and, ultimately, his own sense of self.
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  • Vaughan Rapatahana
    4.0 out of 5 stars An existential thriller
    Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2021
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    In the end contingency rules, despite any individual effort to thwart it.

    This is a compulsive read; taut and tightening as the garotte-like plot twists ever deeper.

    Edge (and Dr. Ralph Patterson) travel well beyond a paint-by-numbers vista of cardboard characters and trite depictions of Mediterranean settings into a full-blown ontological thriller: the questions posed throughout relate to individual freedom and whether determinism ultimately abnegates action.

    In the end, though, contingency reigns. Deal with it, Ralph.
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  • ANNE Lascara
    5.0 out of 5 stars An archeological find of a novel, set in Sardinia
    Reviewed in Spain on August 15, 2020
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    I read Blindsided twice - one reading right after the other. The first time I was on the edge of my seat, needing to know what was going to happen next in this page-turner thriller. The second time through, I savored the descriptions of the amazing Sardinian settings (especially the nuraghe sites), the dialogue (Edge's dialogues sparkle - even (especially?) when they take the wind out of the solar plexus), and Ralph and Cassandra's rather sardonic construction of hope (when you're in a swamp "a muddy path is enough to get your hopes up"; "Think about ignorance and hope. They work for many people"; "Hope is nothing more than the fair twin of regret"). So why do I read the last line as hopeful? -- I know I'm going to be re-reading this novel again - and again - digging out its riches.
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  • Tina Schild
    5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down!
    Reviewed in Germany on September 12, 2020
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    Having loved Edge’s debut, Satisfaction in Times of Anger, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy of Blindsided (thank you Amazon Prime!). As in “Satisfaction”, intriguing characters and snappy, cleverly constructed prose, draw you and keep you reading until you reach a point where you just can’t put it down. I took my time over the first two thirds of the novel, enjoying the unfolding of the various interpersonal relationships depicted as well as the fascinating insight into the historic Nuragic culture (something which was completely new to me) before devouring the final third in the space of an afternoon. Makes a great holiday read - and stays with you long after the holiday is over...
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  • Kevin McGeary
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Unobtrusively Profound Potboiler
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2020
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    Profundity is seldom found in the most obvious places. One famous example is the fictional rivalry between Salieri and Mozart in Peter Shaffer’s play ‘Amadeus’. Salieri, a picture of studied seriousness and sobriety, laments the superior talent of the ‘boastful, smutty, infantile’ Mozart.

    As a 2012 Salon article titled ‘National Book Awards: Genre Fiction Dissed Again’ pointed out, genre fiction is literary fiction’s poor relation when it comes to critical acclaim. But accessible works of art often offer as much or more social, historical and psychological insight as those that are ostentatiously highbrow.

    The premise of ‘Blindsided’ would not be out of place in a light-hearted romance, but it gradually takes a turn deep into the thriller genre. Narrator Ralph, a cerebral, circumspect Englishman, accompanies his partner Clare to Sardinia on a working holiday. They have been together since she was still a student and he a young lecturer, but now that they’ve reached middle-aged ennui, separation seems imminent.

    While renting a car, they encounter the square jawed American Tex, whose folksiness suggests for all the world that there is less to him than meets the eye. By Tex’s side is the puzzling Cass, whose taciturnity leads Clare to speculate that she might be autistic. As it turns out, Cass is multilingual and multi-layered, and not in entirely benign ways.

    By turns titillating and terrifying, Ralph’s Sardinian journey causes him to encounter incidents and individuals that belong well outside the quaint world he inhabits. Around the halfway point of the novel, he tells Clare: “You’re going off with two people we hardly know to meet with people we don’t know at all about something that might well be a bit shady”.

    After one of the novel’s most violent scenes, Ralph reflects ‘my philosophical meanderings seemed in that moment about as useful as pissing on my shoes’. Cass’ subsequent deliberations, about the mating and hunting habits of hyenas, are much more on point, and encapsulate how a middle-aged person’s search for excitement can easily go wrong.

    The log flume ride of a plot takes Ralph to time in a police cell, marital breaking point, and the death of one of his companions. In the first half of the novel, Ralph muses: ‘I never intend to visit cathedrals, but I usually do. I think of it as a professional obligation. I am frequently offended by the ritualised celebration of superstition and cruelty that these houses of horror display.’ In his sheltered life, Ralph has assumed that systemic cruelty belongs to the past. This gripping book has the wisdom to know that that is not the case.

    On the subject of finding profundity in unexpected places, after the 2006 World Cup final, a member of the public called into BBC Radio Five Live and said: “This World Cup shows that there are no heroes, only different shades of villain”. This novel encapsulates why that line has always resonated with me.
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  • Catherine Goodier
    4.0 out of 5 stars Blindsided - An excellent novel and a very good read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2020
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    The first-person narrator is an historian who, with his wife, visits Sardinia so he can work on a book about the pre-historic Nuragic culture and Megalithic structures and they can work on their marriage. A chance encounter at the airport leads to challenges to their relationship and involvement in a situation of increasing danger. This is a fast-paced thriller with introspective reflections on relations between the sexes and the possibility or otherwise of a rational system of ethics: Camus meets John Le Carre. By the rattling denouement this reader was well and truly blindsided. Colin Goodier
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  • R. Cullen
    5.0 out of 5 stars A relational suspense thriller for grown ups.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2021
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    Middle aged academic Ralph is on a trip to Sardinia with his wife Clare in the throes of a failing marriage, which seems doomed from the outset. Ralph, however, is prone to clinging to the last shreds of hope, hope that his marriage can survive, hope that he can revitalise his long stalled career and hope that the intriguing young woman Cass who has crashed into their lives (along with boss Tex) may find him a man of some worth. Whatever Ralph's forlorn hopes, and despite his efforts to analyse and interpret his ever more bewildering situations, the party thrown together by an apparent rental car mix up are headed for seismic events. There is a slow steady build throughout the novel, which revels in the landscape and ancient culture of Sardinia, before we begin to discover the extent to which Ralph has been truly 'blindsided.' Recommend.
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