Peter Mortimer reading at the launch of his novella, Uninvited. Photo © David Hirst
Peter Mortimer's latest book is Uninvited: a novella.
A solitary and private man arrives home to find an uninvited stranger in his house. Over a 40 hour period, despite various attempts, the man is unable to get rid of the stranger, who increasingly becomes a threat to the man's routine, and his mental wellbeing. In the final chapter of a claustrophobic and darkly humorous novella, the book takes an unexpected turn.
Uninvited has been forty years in the making - which Peter calculates is an average of a word and a half per day. Now at last it is complete, and available from Red Squirrel Press.