Ian Gouge

The Opposite of Remembering Ian Gouge

Liam is haunted by his age and the history it forces upon him. Yet he is also plagued by the need to make more - to generate new memories to recall later, before it gets too late, especially when his wife of over thirty years turns his world upside down, as does the woman he meets in an anonymous hotel dining room.

Against a background of domestic parental turmoil, his daughter fights her own demons to try and make sense of her place in a disintegrating family and the wider world.

Much of our lives is enslaved by the act of remembering - but sometimes it is about the opposite of that...