Lewis Sinclaire’s earliest memory is that wherein his mother kisses him on the forehead and wishes him a happy birthday on the very day that she abandoned him. He never saw her again, but the memory is a happy one, nonetheless. But is a memory a true facsimile of what actually happened? During the lockdown of Spring 2020, Lewis, a restauranteur by trade, is forced to isolate with his dying father in the family home that he has despised all of his life. He is determined to use the time wisely, and over a game of chess and fuelled by a strong Irish Whiskey, he discovers that a memory is not the truth. He discovers precisely what went on between his mother and his father at the family villa in Le Marche, Italy, in nineteen-eighty-four, and why his mother had to abandon him. Then, at his father’s ‘lockdown’ funeral, a stranger appears, who changes his mind completely…..
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Steve Miller (1950–2024) was the author, along with his wife, of dozens of short stories and eighteen novels, most set in their star-spanning Liaden Universe®. In 2012, they won the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction, also known as the Skylark award, given by the New England Science Fiction Association to writers who have “contributed significantly to science fiction.” Before becoming a science fiction and fantasy writer, he was a traveling poet, a rock-band reviewer, reporter, and editor of a string of community newspapers.