Sea Monster Child

Sixteen-year-old Philip Addersley is illegitimate. His sixteen-year-old half-brother Tom is not. Loved equally by their father, they grow up side by side until, on the verge of adulthood, one crafts a shocking betrayal by forging a letter in his brother’s name – a letter that will result in estrangement, exile, and the fulfilment of violent ambition.

Falsely branded a criminal and disguising himself as a beggar to evade capture, Tom must soon risk his own liberty in order to save his father and dearest friends from a devious plot for power in which Philip is intimately embroiled.

Sea Monster Child resets Shakespeare’s great tragedy King Lear in Victorian England. From the claustrophobia of a Cornish harbour town to the horrors of a lunatic asylum, the brothers are drawn towards a final confrontation at the remote coastal fortress of Tintagel, where truth or treachery must prevail …