A
tender-hearted man
. But
the mind has a curious way of responding to such pressures. The way his mind
chose to react was to come up with the notion that he should conceive a passion
for the one woman who was forbidden to him. Her name was Clara. She was beautiful,
she was approachable and he always felt at ease in her company. Clara was his
brother's wife
.
by Roger Morris
Roger is the author of two very different novels. Taking Comfort (Macmillan
New Writing) published in 2006 is a contemporary literary thriller, A Gentle
Axe (Faber and Faber), is a historical crime novel featuring the detective Porfiry
Petrovich from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. It was published in February
2007. Roger lives and writes in North London. He is married to Rachel and has
two kids, Claire and Luke.
