Francis Gimblett will be signing copies of his new book, Misfit.
Be transported to Haslemere 300 years ago, this Christmas
Adventure, time travel and history meet in this new novel
by local author Francis Gimblett.
It’s 1682 and Max, a young man in post-Cromwellian Haslemere, has been framed for two murders he didn’t commit. His only chance of escaping the gallows rests on the shoulders of a failed wine merchant called Travis. There’s only one problem: Travis won’t be born for another three hundred years.
A murder mystery three centuries in the making, Misfit is a time shift thriller told with a historian’s eye for detail. It whisks readers from the gallows of Hindhead, to Wealden iron works, through Haslemere’s bustling market and inns, to its thrilling conclusion in the shadow of Blackdown.
Francis Gimblett, local wine presenter and cheesemaker, spent five years researching the area, to help to provide a faithful portrayal of life in the hills around Haslemere during the period. ‘At first the idea was just to have an understanding of the town I’d come to call home when I moved here in the nineties,’ said Gimblett. ‘Then the place began to develop layers and take on a life that I felt an urge to write about.’
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