THE TIN NOSE SHOP

INSPIRED BY ONE OF THE LAST GREAT UNTOLD STORIES OF WW1

For most of us, it takes a while to realise that we cross lines in our lives. Silent, unmarked borders of time that we pass, as if in our dreams, without ever realising what weareleavingbehind. Wedonotseethatthematchlessnightsofbeingcherishedand held close are vanishing even as we live them, and that we are all refugees from one war torn country or another, or from one war torn love story or another. Time moves so deceptively that we never say, 'This is the last walk I will take with you along the shore.' Or 'This afternoon I carried a child in my arms for the final time.' Perhaps early this
morning while we dressed and put the kettle on, our destiny advanced unwatched.'
And so he finds himself at a castle by the Irish Sea, surrounded by casualties of war and trying to come to terms with the violent death of his best friend and the promise he has failed to keep.
At the Tin Nose Shop, Sam battles his own demons as he learns to create intricate masks to hide the mutilation suffered by the men around him. But will he too be able to find the courage to make the same journey from despair to a desire to live on in the world?

Don J. Snyder was born and raised in America and is the author of ten novels and non- fiction books and wrote the movie Fallen Angel that starred Gary Sinise and Joely Richardson.
He now lives in Scotland where he established the world's only caddie training school for soldiers, to try to help restore servicemen from around the world who are suffering from PTSD.
Snyder won the most prestigious fellowship at the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1985. His ten novels and non-fiction books have been published with Little, Brown, Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, and Random House.