New Release
Dr. Sharma's Fantabulous Fantasies
Published by The Conrad Press
My compelling new novel, Dr. Sharma's Fantabulous Fantasies, will take you on an exhilarating and expansive journey through a kaleidoscope of genres. Get the book via the links below and strap yourself in for a wild ride that takes in identity, racism, religion, sex, fetishes, suicide and more in a story that is laced with black comedy and spans different countries and realities.
After an ill-fated experiment, Dr. Dev Sharma finds himself in a... precarious situation. Reliving the moments leading to his current predicament, Dr. Sharma's playful imagination seeps into his memories, prompting surreal and blackly comic stories reflecting his state of mind. All the while, he is prompted by a shadowy visitor who observes his struggle. As Dr. Sharma’s mind unravels, the lines between reality and imagination are blurred, unravelling a mystery and revealing a dark family secret.
Dr. Sharma's Fantabulous Fantasies takes us from Dev's childhood memories of his elder sister, Amina, through the devastation wrought on his family by an unimaginable tragedy. The gulf between cultures envelops young Dev as he and his mother leave England for Mauritius. There, as she loses herself in religion, Dev seeks comfort in the bedtime stories Amina used to tell him.
Upon returning to England, his desire to fit in society causes him to analyse the prejudice and everyday racism he experiences at school. Years later, as a practising doctor, Dr. Sharma discovers his mother’s dark and long-hidden family secret in a shattering episode that leads him to sex workers, a trafficker, and a sex club to understand the past.
This genre-hopping novel tells a story that spans continents, taking you on a journey packed with emotion. A journey that explores the nature of identity, questions how we perceive differences, considers how we think, as well as the fragility of life and its instances of duality that we rarely consider.
In writing this novel, I have drawn upon some of my own experiences to write an ambitious and exciting debut. With a ribbon of dark humour, as well as emotional resonance, this novel is a life-affirming message that hope can transcend darkness and that life, despite its fragility, is a compulsion we all live.
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