Truth of the Divine
Also By Lindsay Ellis and Available From Titan Books
Axiom’s End
LEAVE US A REVIEW
We hope you enjoy this book – if you did we would really appreciate it if you can write a short review. Your ratings really make a difference for the authors, helping the books you love reach more people.
You can rate this book, or leave a short review here:
Amazon.co.uk,
Goodreads,
Waterstones,
or your preferred retailer.
Truth of the Divine
Hardback edition ISBN: 9781789098020
Waterstones edition ISBN: 9781789099966
Forbidden Planet Edition ISBN: 9781803360577
Export edition ISBN: 9781789098242
E-book edition ISBN: 9781789098044
Published by Titan Books
A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
144 Southwark Street, London SE1 OUP
www.titanbooks.com
First Titan edition: October 2021
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2021 Lindsay Ellis. All rights reserved.
Lindsay Ellis asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.
For Kaveh
Contents
Cover
Also By Lindsay Ellis and Available From Titan Books
Title Page
Leave us a Review
Copyright
Dedication
Author’s Note
Part 1: It’s A Fool Who Plays It Cool
1
2
3
4
5
6
Part 2: Love Has A Nasty Habit Of Disappearing Overnight
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Part 3: A Crowd Of People Stood And Stared
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
Part 4: Happiness Is A Warm Gun
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
A Fiction Agreed Upon
Acknowledgments
About the Author
AUTHOR’S NOTE
The following serves as a content warning, and as such contains some spoilers. If you feel that you aren’t someone who benefits from or needs content warnings, I suggest you skip this section.
There is much discussion in media criticism circles about the ethics of portrayals of suicide and self-harm, particularly the tendency to romanticize it. Indeed, I have had some very bad nights as a result of certain pieces of media framing suicide as a sad thing that happens, but maybe sometimes the noble thing to do, especially for those of us who have metaphorically pissed our pants at the Grammys (looking at you, A Star Is Born). But romanticization or no, any depiction of suicide, attempted, contemplated, or completed, can make someone who already experiences those tendencies to fall back into the ideation pit. Depiction of an act need not be romanticized to trigger negative effects, especially if the viewer/reader goes in unaware.