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Bobby Palmer
Bobby Palmer is a journalist and the author of Isaac and the Egg. He writes contemporary fiction that blends the ordinary with the strange to tell stories about grief and connection.
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Synopsis
Clara is stuck in an entry-level job, itching to pick up a camera and start directing. Seb has drifted between music, modelling and acting without finding his footing. When chance throws them together in a London square, their connection is immediate — and impossible for anyone nearby to ignore.
Main Characters follows Clara and Seb across two decades, but never from inside their own heads. Instead, each chapter is narrated by someone standing just outside the relationship — a friend, a flatmate, a parent, a rival, a stranger on the bus — building a portrait of a love story from everyone who watched it happen.
As the years pass and their lives keep circling back to each other, the relationship becomes the kind that consumes everyone around it. It ends when Clara, now an aspiring film director, casts Seb in her breakthrough film — a decision that leads to a betrayal neither of them saw coming.
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Characters
Clara CowanProtagonist
An aspiring film director stuck in an entry-level job in London, whose chance meeting with Seb becomes the two-decade relationship the whole novel orbits.
Seb BonamiProtagonist
An actor who has drifted between music, modelling and acting without finding his footing, whose on-again, off-again relationship with Clara is narrated entirely by the people around them.