Last updated: 24 July 2026
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2. About this site
This site is the personal author website of Paul Bellchambers, used to share information about, and extracts from, the novel Twenty-Eight Years, along with related writing, process notes, and links to the associated Substack newsletter.
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4. A note on the novel’s content
Twenty-Eight Years is a work of fiction. While it draws on recurring patterns and themes heard across many real conversations about divorce and family breakdown over a number of years, it does not depict any real, identifiable individual, and no character, event, or relationship in the novel is a factual account of any specific person’s life. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events, is coincidental or the product of fictional composition, not intentional depiction.
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