About Nascent
In 1980s Newport, an art student and aspiring novelist falls in love with his best friend.
But she is Christian, he is an atheist, and the relationship is doomed before it begins.
Decades later, the author of Nascent tries to understand that relationship by reshaping it as a comedy-thriller set in present-day Norwich. Unfortunately, he soon discovers how unsuited he is to genre fiction — even his characters start complaining about their working conditions. The final nail in the novel’s coffin is a car chase he simply cannot compose.
The solution? Tear it up and start again.
Same characters, different setting, and a more overtly autobiographical, confessional approach — however unsettling some of the memories might be.
Nascent is a psychological novel about recursion, shame, first love, and the stories we build to survive ourselves. Blending dark humour with emotional intensity, it explores how memory breaks down — and how starting again is sometimes the only way forward.
A book about writing a book, about the dangers of looking too closely, and about what happens when the thing you’re running from lives in your own head.
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Author Bio:
Alan Leslie is the pseudonym of Philip Leslie, a British writer whose work explores memory, identity, and the blurred edges between fiction and autobiography. He also writes genre fiction under the name Fran Leslie.