A Bang on the Head

By Will Stebbings

Rob Lennard wakes up in a hospital bed. It is the year 2019, but Rob is convinced it is 1979 and that he is twenty years old. He has suffered mild concussion after a garden accident, but doctors are unable to explain the loss of forty years of memories and do not offer any treatment for it. They use the word 'trauma.' Well, this is certainly traumatic for Rob.The last thing he remembers is getting ready to meet his girlfriend Kate, but now he is told that he is sixty years old and married to Julie who is in her late fifties. He is inconsolable when he learns that Kate died many years ago, His parents are also dead and he feels alone in the world. He is now expected to go home and share a bed with a strange woman who is older than his mother was in 1979.He learns that he is a grandparent and a visit from his beautiful, intelligent daughter in her late twenties, leaves him with thoughts that he shouldn't have towards a daughter, but she is a stranger to him.The world outside of the hospital is like science fiction to him - satnavs; 'phones that can take high quality photographs without film; the internet; satellite television; cars with cameras. In town, people walk around staring at their hand-held devices which they can use to pay for goods. Even people's attitudes have changed. His wife warns him of words that are no longer acceptable and he struggles with mundane activities and conversations.To make matters worse, he doesn't even live in Norfolk anymore and is far removed from any old friends who may or may not still be alive. His new wife and family seek to find experiences that will jog his memory and restore him to his old self, but nothing seems to work.A trip to Norfolk may release memories locked away.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B095KHV9F7
• ISBN13: 9798508456641
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"