Second Honeymoon

Up and coming novelist George T. Slinger returns to the cottage in Kent where he enjoyed his honeymoon with Tanya. Since then, Tanya has left George for Bradley because of George’s neglect of her due to his obsession with his novel-writing. He believes that returning to the honeymoon cottage will serve a double purpose: not only will it help him resume his psychological-magical-realism-thriller novel – which he is presently struggling to write – but also, by reconnecting with his past happy memories there coupled with the power of his writer’s imagination, he might somehow magically conjure the real flesh-and-blood Tanya back into his life again.

George soon realises he is quite delusional and becomes extremely despondent. However, the enigmatic Crispin, the cottage’s caretaker, on meeting George and hearing his story, becomes the catalyst for reigniting George’s hopes. The next day Tanya arrives. George questions whether it was his imagination that brought her to the cottage or whether she came of her own free will. But, no matter which, Tanya is with him again and that’s all that counts. She assures George that there was no Bradley and that she was just making him up to punish him. They agree to make this holiday together their second honeymoon…on one condition Tanya insists: no writing. George agrees, but before long he is secretly working on his novel. Tanya catches him writing and angrily storms out.

George resolves to forget about Tanya and to focus on his novel instead and the future success it will bring him when published. The unexpected arrival of Bradley and then the reappearance of Tanya forces George to unwillingly participate in a series of events that could be straight out of his psychological magical realism thriller… which indeed it is. George realises that his powerful writer’s imagination has put him squarely into the pages of his own book. Time is running out until George must meet his grizzly demise over the nearby cliff edge by the hand of the villainous Bradley, unless he is able to win back Tanya’s love and rid the world – and Tanya’s imagination – of her lover.

As the novel’s author, George realises that the story is ultimately in his hands and he can choose to write the ending her prefers. But will he? Or will his self-sabotaging nature get the better of him?

However, there is one last twist in George’s story that even he, the author, couldn’t have possibly imagined.