By: Paul Bowdring

The Night Season is the story of Will, a recently divorced, disillusioned English professor experiencing a mid-life crisis. It is winter during the mid-1980s. Will has left his job, having almost ruined his love for literature by teaching it for a living, his marriage has disintegrated and he has left his home and young daughter.

The Night Season is spiked with humour, delivered deadpan by the main character, an extremely literate baby boomer wandering through his own professional and personal breakdown, in a haze of alcohol, old friends and his own pain-provoked wit. Hard-edged but compassionate, melancholy but unfailingly funny, it is an exploration of loss of love, purpose and the soul's need to find its true transforming task; and it weaves its way over this strange but familiar stony ground as quietly, patiently and mysteriously as a divining rod.