| UPLAND ROAD
UPLAND ROAD traces powerful and passionate relationships that are fundamentally corroded. Lillian is struggling to overcome a childhood incident of sexual abuse-that affects her love world for the rest of her life. Dylan loves Lillian passionately and wants for them to have a “normal” life. Both character’s journeys are a struggle of self-awareness, alternate realities, and forgiveness; a struggle to engage with this curse and to break through it.
Dylan is dedicated to practicing the art of acceptance in order to battle the curse, but is confounded by Lillian’s pending infidelity. Lillian constantly struggles to overcome a childhood incident that affects her love world throughout her life. These childhood sweethearts think they are warm loving human beings until they find themselves living an adult life of dark consequences. Can their love survive a devastating climax when Dylan retreats to the safety of nature? The story is a tragedy that, at the last, emerges without grief into beauty.
THOMAS MOORE is an experiential author with a sweeping impressionistic style. Dr. Moore’s current novel addresses the theosophical inner self, confounded by a community of addiction and abuse. He explores conflict through love and family relationships. Dr. Moore worked in California publishing poetry, non-fiction, and technical research articles before returning to New Zealand to write full time.
UPLAND ROAD is about how childhood events such as abuse reflect in adult lives.
UPLAND ROAD is set in both a remote village in New Zealand, and in suburban California: Childhood trauma reflects in adult life for two lovers: All it takes is one demon to propel them to tragedy. But an escape from Limbo turns everything.
It is a story of internal and family conflict, about the cost of betrayal, the possibility of redemption, and the forgiveness required to journey on.
UPLAND ROAD is memorable both as a social commentary and for sensitive character portrayals around how childhood trauma affects adult lives.
The character studies are revealing and mirror the ramifications for a society that denies core issues.
Dylan meets Lil while she is visiting New Zealand. Dylan is a young man who feels trapped in a small fishing village. He escapes to California but is torn as he seeks to understand himself, to understand Lil and her family, and to find peace for both. The story comes to a devastating climax after Dylan retreats to the safety of nature.
When Dylan's adversary is finally confident of his elimination, a long held secret is revealed: One that reverses everything that his adversary has sought to destroy, one that finally opens the possibility of salvation.
About Thomas Moore
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