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By profession I am an insurance broker In London and writing has had to be a hobby, although to be a full time author has been a goal of mine for many years.
My first attempt at story writing won me joint first prize in school competition but I decided to see if I could write a full novel when I was about 18. I did manage to finish it but I never found a publisher, although I did some years later pay to get it published - 'Trance' - only 72 copies were sold.
It was some years before I tried again. It was not until I was made redundant in 1995, before moving to London from Manchester, that I started 'Trouble Cross'. I wanted to see if I could write a comedy novel because I had had a little success in making people laugh with send ups in one the offices I used to work in. It took me 4 years to write and during that time I had to relocate to London to obtain work. I tried the usual route of literary agents via 'The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook' with no success, so another manuscript in the bottom drawer.
It seems to me I work on a 4 year cycle because I started 'Rewind' in 2004 and finished in 2008. Once again I couldn't obtain an agent although briefly I did have one for the screenplay. After 3 versions, so many changes to the story were asked for and I let it die. The bottom drawer was getting too heavy to open by this time.
Last year someone suggested I publish on Kindle and "Trouble Cross" and "Rewind" are both available as e-books. Now a 4 star review on here.
Reviewed by Kim Anisi for Readers' Favorite
Rewind by David A. Wardle is the story of Jason, who commits suicide on his 40th birthday in the year 2003. However, he doesn't end up dead but wakes up in his eight-year-old body in the year 1971. He still knows everything about his life, about what happened in various years, which scores soccer teams had and so on. Reliving his life was one of his dreams - but when he suddenly got that chance he realizes that things aren't as easy as he would have imagined, especially with horrible parents and the body of an eight-year-old boy.
What the book does very well is to make the reader understand the situation in which Jason finds himself and to portray the man/boy in a very engaging manner. There is a big contrast between the knowledge Jason has - it could turn him into a very influential person - and the weakness he has to live with in the body of an eight-year-old boy with unloving and even violent parents. David A. Wardle manages to create a believable character with believable problems in a rather unbelievable situation. Jason not only faces the typical problems of an eight-year-old nerdy boy (e.g. bullying) but he has to live with the knowledge that he should be able to change everything, to do everything better this time around.
The book is really nicely written, entertaining and witty. David A. Wardle should certainly let the reader know how Jason goes about his life when he gets older. There surely are heaps of stories to tell! I certainly would be interested in reading them.
