Book Details:
Book Title: Choppiness on High Seas by Arvind Wadhera
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 296 pages
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Troubadour UK
Release date: October 2024
Content Rating: PG -13 + M rating for: There is contextual sex, violence and abuse.
Book Description:
Being born into poverty and hardship in 1930s London, Matthew’s life was one of relentless struggle. One inadvertent act in defence of his mother would haunt his conscience forever.
Matthew’s journey takes him from the poverty of a cold stone granary to the opulence of Mayfair and Kensington Palace Gardens, where he starts a family of his own. Despite working his way to the top of the business world, he remains an outsider to London’s elite. He then realises that that same elite has an ugly underbelly. High society was a hot bed of depravity.
Will he correct society’s wrongs? Will the man who never succumbed to expectations be able to challenge his own destiny or will he simply accept the futility of it all?
Being born into poverty and hardship in 1930s London, Matthew’s life was one of relentless struggle. One inadvertent act in defence of his mother would haunt his conscience forever.
Matthew’s journey takes him from the poverty of a cold stone granary to the opulence of Mayfair and Kensington Palace Gardens, where he starts a family of his own. Despite working his way to the top of the business world, he remains an outsider to London’s elite. He then realises that that same elite has an ugly underbelly. High society was a hot bed of depravity.
Will he correct society’s wrongs? Will the man who never succumbed to expectations be able to challenge his own destiny or will he simply accept the futility of it all?
I rated this book 5 *****
The most emotional book I have ever read
This book is the most emotional book I have ever read. What a phenomenal story this is by the author. It is my very first book by him that I have read. I am a new fan.
What a powerful and inspirational guy Matthew Stephens is. This guy survived and became the wealthiest man and a powerful businessman in the UK because of his beginnings. The wealth he had earned helped so many poor people lift up their lives. I am an owe of Mr. Stephens. Despite being the richest man in the UK, he is down-to-earth, and so is his family. Sally, her daughter, made me bawl my eyes. She is like her Dad in so many ways.
You will need a tissue while reading this book. It will come in handy. Wealth is really nothing when it does not help to lengthen your family's life. I am sure that somewhere out there, there is a real man like Mr. Stephens who has a heart of gold, lives a simple life, and shares his wealth with the people or charity that needed the most.
This is an extraordinary kind of book. It is not only emotional, but it will teach you life lessons.
Meet the Author:
Arvind is French and British with roots in India. He lives and works in Brussels.
Arvind has three adult children, who all live away from Belgium. He reads literary fiction and was motivated to write after reading three key books: The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Thérèse Raquin, 1984 and East of Eden. He is fascinated by the co-existence of good and evil. In his first book, Emma's Equilibrium, he relates the story of an Olympic winner who suffers hurt along the way. Choppiness on High Seas charts the life of Matthew from his ignominious birth to his passing away in peace after having become one of the weathiest persons in the world.
Arvind loves languages and can speak French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian, Hindi, Punjabi and Gujarati. He is a stroke survivor and rides, jogs and does yoga.
He is a strong believer in the duality of fortune and misfortune. He is deeply spiritual.
Arvind finds writing challenging and frustrating and editing particularly painful. He, however, believes that writing can be therapeutic and gratifying.
connect with the author: website ~ X ~ instagram ~ goodreads
Arvind is French and British with roots in India. He lives and works in Brussels.
Arvind has three adult children, who all live away from Belgium. He reads literary fiction and was motivated to write after reading three key books: The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Thérèse Raquin, 1984 and East of Eden. He is fascinated by the co-existence of good and evil. In his first book, Emma's Equilibrium, he relates the story of an Olympic winner who suffers hurt along the way. Choppiness on High Seas charts the life of Matthew from his ignominious birth to his passing away in peace after having become one of the weathiest persons in the world.
Arvind loves languages and can speak French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian, Hindi, Punjabi and Gujarati. He is a stroke survivor and rides, jogs and does yoga.
He is a strong believer in the duality of fortune and misfortune. He is deeply spiritual.
Arvind finds writing challenging and frustrating and editing particularly painful. He, however, believes that writing can be therapeutic and gratifying.
connect with the author: website ~ X ~ instagram ~ goodreads
