A novel about a father who is unable to reach his daughter - until...

A Door Made of Ink

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The wrong reader at the right moment

Greg Martin is a forty-six-year-old music teacher in Brighton — a failed jazz pianist, a half-absent father, the kind of man who has been losing his daughter for nine years and has not yet admitted it.

Ella, his seventeen-year-old daughter, makes poems and drawings on an anonymous Instagram account her mother knows about and her father does not. When Greg discovers the account, he finds a hidden creative life he has never been allowed to see. And in the moment of discovery — under conditions he tells himself are protective — he makes a choice that cannot be taken back.

A Door Made of Ink is a novel about seeing and being seen, about the wrong reader at the right moment, and about the small accumulated trespasses by which a father becomes the wound he is trying to soothe.

Chapter One

A Mouthful of Cherries

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Chapter One A Mouthful of Cherries

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PJ Beville

PJ Beville is the author of A Door Made of Ink, his debut novel. Raised on the belief that everyone carries a singular, vital story within them, he spent years not so quietly observing the world before bringing this book to life.

He lives happily on the wind-swept, sun-drenched coast of Jersey in the Channel Islands with his partner, Nicki. When not chained to the desk, he can be found chasing the horizon on an Indian motorcycle, seeking out the brightest corners of the island.

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