Arthur's Eventful Weekend

by Mike Horwood

Arthur’s life changes in the space of just two days. A chance remark by his elderly mother makes him wonder if his father was really his father. He searches through his childhood memories, looking for clues. This isn’t the only part of his past that Arthur fails to understand fully. His relationship with his wife is tense, but he seems to be only half aware of the fact – and he doesn´t even pay much attention to that half.Then there´s the memory that won´t allow him any the worst thing he ever did. On Sunday, he goes to meet the woman he lived with twenty years earlier. And does he tell his wife? No, he doesn´t. But when he returns home he´s a changed man, a man with a quest; and his wife, he learns, is not the woman he´d thought she was.BiographyMike Horwood has lived in Finland since 1985. He studied for an MA in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and is currently working towards a PhD at Bangor University. He has published a translation from the Finnish of Martti Hynynen´s collection island, nameless rock and many of his poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies. Ward Wood has also published his poetry collection Midas Touch and his novel The Finn’s Tale.

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