Stepping Out By Steven Boykey Sidley

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Steven Boykey Sidley
9781770102859

Harold Cummings has led a good life – honest, cautious, prudent.
Now retired, financially secure and terminally bored, he asks himself –
where are my rewards? When his wife Millie is called away for a few days
Harold slowly begins to unravel. Starting with small incidents of risky
and uncharacteristic behaviour, he quickly spirals into a no-holds-barred
encounter with the seamy underworld of the city he calls home. Harold
careens shockingly and comically into a world without handrails, one
that he finds terrifying but strangely compelling. As he is drawn into the
ambit of a young hooker and her child, and into encounters with drug
dealers and a violent pimp, Harold is forced to confront his demons head
on. He must find the means to reverse his slide into self-destruction and
rediscover grace in the choices he has made.
By turns funny, sad, chilling and provocative, Stepping Out continues
the dark and humorous intellectual explorations of Sidley’s acclaimed
debut novel, Entanglement.