“Torn” is Drew’s current project. It is a fictional story about the conflict between science and religion, exploring the positive and negative aspects of both. It is current approaching its final draft and will be submitted for publication in the next few months.
“A controversial plan for regeneration. A church defending its community. Two unyielding personalities with opposing views. A line drawn through a Kent village. Families and friends divided. The ongoing conflict between science and religion…”
It’s the best and worst of church, religion and faith. The best and worst of science. It’s about wrestling with faith in a complex world. It’s about indoctrination, dogma and manipulation, even outright lies. It’s about family, expectations, mis-communication and betrayal. And it’s about love and hate.
It’s based on some real situations, and though there are no ‘real’ characters in here, recognisable traits from real people I’ve met will doubtless be detectable, both laudable and otherwise. The characters in the story are deliberately clashed together to create conflicting situations that demand a painful resolution. At times I’ve felt I’ve had to scale back on the story in order to keep within the bounds of credibility, only to be confronted with a worst excess on an almost daily basis. It’s possible you may read this and think – “That can’t happen!” Let me assure you, it can; it does.
Religion and science may or may not be compatible, so I guess my book is my way of exploring what I think about all of this and the battle we all face in trying to seek real ‘truth’, despite the influences around us.
- Drew
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