The unhappy medium / T. J. Brown.
"Dr. Newton Barlow had everything he could ask for – a glittering career in the lab and on television, a beautiful wife, and best of all, the opportunity to promote his rock-solid certainty that the supernatural world is about as real as a bucket of fairies. But the cocksure Dr. Barlow is set for a tumble. Mired in accusations of fraud, Newton is disowned by the scientific establishment, ejected from the family home and thrown bodily from his ivory tower. Three wine-sodden years later, Newton is approached by Dr. Sixsmith, his equally skeptical mentor, with an extraordinary proposition. His rational life in tatters, it’s an offer the former Dr. Barlow is in no position to refuse. There’s just one tiny little problem. Sixsmith is dead. Can Newton forget everything he ever believed in to save this world… and the next?’"-- Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781530573073 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 394 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: [England] : T. J. Brown, [2014]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A supernatural comedy" --cover. |
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Subject: | Physicists > Fiction. Fraud > Fiction. Belief and doubt > Fiction. Future life > Fiction. Spiritualism > Fiction. Paranormal fiction. |
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Dr Newton Barlow has everything a theoretical physicist could ask for â a glittering career both in the lab and on television, a beautiful wife, and best of all, the opportunity to promote his rock-solid certainty that supernatural and religious beliefs are nothing but complete and utter hokum.But Barlow is about to take a tumble. Mired in accusations of fraud, incompetence and malpractice, Newton is cast out from the scientific establishment and ejected from the family home. With his life in tatters, he descends into a wine-sodden wilderness.Then, after three lost years, Barlow is suddenly approached by his old mentor and fellow sceptic Dr Sixsmith with an extraordinary proposition, an offer that Newton simply cannot refuse. Thereâs just one small problem:Dr Sixsmith is dead.Thrown headlong into a new reality that simply shouldnât exist, Dr Newton Barlow is about to come up against the best and the worst of human nature: tooled-up vicars, paper-pushing ancient Greeks, sinister property developers, a saucy rubber nun and possibly the most mean-spirited man ever to have walked the earth (twice).From the dusty plains of Spain to the leafy vicarages of Hampshire, Dr Barlow will have to contradict everything he ever believed in if he wants to save this world â and the next.