Bronze Award Winner Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards
A BROKEN WORLD NEEDS A REBEL
Society has turned on its head. The ‘free’ hide behind fortifications and the ‘imprisoned’ roam the wild, barren land beyond.
Finbarl-apcula guards the town of Athenia, an oasis in a parched, sparsely populated world. He keeps the citizens safe, ensures those who break the draconian laws lose their freedom, and protects what he prizes above all else: civilisation.
When Finbarl is made to lie to help convict a mother he once rescued from a bully, it delivers the first crack in his unquestionable faith in the system. As further lies and corruption are exposed, Finbarl’s world crumbles, allowing him to finally see that ‘prison walls’ exist everywhere, within himself, throughout society and in the very landscape he calls home.
No one is free and the civilisation he was willing to die for is at the root of the problem.
Finbarl begins a thrilling adventure of twists, rebellion, danger, discovery and tragedy to break the bonds imprisoning a world, himself and the future. Will he find what he really treasures most: true freedom?
In creating a dangerous but exciting ‘inverse’ world, where the true meaning of freedom is explored and challenged, Wrey invites the reader to consider how their own society, and the individuals within, are inhibited and restricted by ‘walls’ through fear and ignorance.
“It is one of those rare manuscripts where all of the scenes deliver – nothing is subsidiary, every moment furthers the plot.”
Millennium Book Awards 2021 Longlisted Author
Finalist The Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2020
AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK, EBOOK AND AUDIOBOOK!
Liberty Bound falls under a number of genres: sci-fi, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, speculative-fiction and adventure. Primarily, it was written as an adventure novel that happens to be set in a future, dystopian world. It includes social commentary, a little philosophising and is not without its romance, comedy and tragedy. It contains violence but nothing graphic. I write this to help steer readers either to or away from its pages. It is suitable for older teenagers and adults. Do check out the Reviews page for what other readers think.
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“Have you ever noticed there are fewer people willing to fight for what’s right than those willing to start a fight for what’s wrong?”
Winner of a Readers’ Favorite International Book Award 2021
Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2020
Longlisted Author in the Millennium Book Awards 2021
Semi-finalist in the 2021 Indies Today Awards
B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree
Winner of a HUGEOrange Editor’s Pick Award
Winner of the International Review of Books Gold Star Award
5 Star Review from Book Viral
4 out of 4 Review from the Online BookClub
Winner of a Literary Titan Silver Award
The second edition
On publication of Where Liberty Lies, the second book in the Liberty trilogy, I decided it was time to get a superior cover for Liberty Bound and iron out a few prose-related issues at the start of the book, which only start to grate when you develop as a writer. So, in 2023, hot on the heals of its sequel, I brought out a second edition. You may, therefore, notice a few images of the original on this site.
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“Our punishment is knowing what mankind can achieve without being able to achieve it ourselves.”
“Society is a complex thing. There’s never one solution, just as there’s never one problem.”
Audiobook
Liberty Bound is brought alive by the voice of actor Hugh Kermode.
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“To think you can rebuild and make it better is reckless, arrogant and stupid.”
“So, you won’t help us?” said Finbarl.
The old man smiled. “Of course, I’ll help you! Those are the very qualities driving history.”
Book Launch Interview
Due to a long associate with the world of nursing, the launch of Liberty Bound was scheduled to take place at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London. However, with the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, these plans were scuppered and in its place Kim Macleod, of Indie Authors World, undertook a Zoom interview with Nathaniel on 4 June 2020. You can watch the interview below:
“My strength is I understand how much I don’t know; how much I’ve still to learn.”
“There’s no better symbol of how society behaves than in how two people brought together through love treat each other in the bonds of marriage.”