Laurence Spellman
Tommy is struggling to keep up with payments for his mothers medical treatment. An opportunity to fight in the underground world of no rules bare knuckle fighting would give him the cash he needs to help his mother, but at what cost?
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
Two strangers meet at key turning points over the course of their lives. The initial conflict gives way to compassion and eventual friendship.
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.
