Robin Hooppell

Robin writes stories full of place, memory and renewal.  

His CV doubles as an accidental novella: He lived in the USA, France and Germany and is currently living in Teignmouth.  

Robin has poked his nose into a lot of other people’s lives working at various teaching jobs, fraud investigation, asbestos removal, sales and more. He feels he travelled as an ‘idiot abroad’ with enough good fortune (and backing) to avoid starvation.

Through the Arts Quarter Prize and ‘Write France’ he published five anthologies welcoming emerging writers and artists. Now, under First Person Press, he is continuing to publish his own short stories. He believes that art comes from interaction and welcomes collaboration.

Robin’s collection of short stories ‘Little Truths Quiet Lies, is now available on Amazon.

Blurb:

Quiet Truths Little Lies is a literary mosaic of memory and reinvention of stories with emotional depth mostly set in France. Robin gathers characters creating a new life, often in a new place, with already lived experience in the background. There is a theme of quietly radical attempts to reshape lives. The characters, either by choice or circumstance, seek their future according to their own measure. The mood is of mature acceptance of life with optimism and poetic feeling. The reshaped lives include ending or starting relationships, following dreams of authorship or becoming a monk!
Success or failure is treated without undue drama or self-pity and with quiet humour without cruelty. This is a shelter for those who have lived part of their life off-script or who feel a changing world may lead to new directions.
This is not a collection for readers who crave plot twists (although there are plenty) or high drama, trend or loud revelations. These stories come from real life observations and as such are open to interpretation. The book details an invitation to write your own ending for possible inclusion in future editions should the stories resonate with you.

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