AF/1/TRU - The Truth About These Strange Times

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The Truth About These Strange Times

2003-2006

3 boxes

Adam Foulds's first novel, 'The Truth About These Strange Times' (2007), is about the relationship between Howard, a Scottish loner, and 10-year-old maths prodigy, Saul. It won the 2008 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and a 2007 Betty Trask Award.

Contains primarily drafts from 2003-2004, 2005 and 2006. There is a small amount of editorial correspondence.

A note on the layout of the chapters in the book (this is useful when looking at the various drafts and scripts):

Part 1
Burnley, How Howard met Saul
December 14th
December 15th
March 2nd
March 8th
March 12th
Until April 7th
April 8th
April 9th
April 11th

Part 2
London, How Howard might meet Irina
April 12th-26th
April 26th
April 30th
May 6th
May 8th
May 9th
May 25th
May 29th
June 9th
June 12th
June 15th
June 21st
June 23rd
July 1st
July 2nd to 8th
July 8th
July 9th

Part 3
Elsewhere, How Howard met the Whole Wide World
July 10th
July 11
July 12th
July 13th

Part 4
London, How Irina met Misha
December 17th