Stan Abbott
Novel experience
S
tan Abbott – who writes regularly on travel and
current affairs for publications that include The
New European and Flight Time (Flybe) – has just
published his first novel, featuring a quite different
subject: mental health.
Back in 2010 Stan suffered a manic episode
after what he had thought was just a minor bicycle
accident. It resulted in him spending three weeks in
psychiatric hospital, during which time he suffered, or
perhaps enjoyed delusions, in which he had created
a vast global business, whose associated charity was
dedicated to doing ‘good works’ throughout the world.
He decided to record his bizarre experience in a
fictionalised account and the result is a 600-page
adventure, in which his leading character’s descent
into madness and subsequent recovery are interwoven
into a romp featuring people who inhabit the
delusional world he created. The Episode, by Stan L.
Abbott, ISBN 978-1-912218-49-3 is published by Sixth
Element and is also available in Amazon Kindle and
Paperback, and direct from stanabbott.com.
Image Stan at the launch of The Episode with the BBC’s Jeff Brown