Below is a series of extracts from my in many ways unsatisfactory novel Help! which, until posting here, I hadn't looked at for 8 years.  If I were writing it today I would write it very differently.  Still, there are interesting things in it, and some passages would work well with a bit of editing...

As usual with a blog, the extacts appear in reverse order, ie the last extracts first.  The last sequence,(extracts 6-11) about the hero vonfronting his father, is perhaps the most interesting.

Comments welcome.