Snapshot

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By Jack Martindale

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Darren Brown is 27. Finishing growing-up around northeast London's Higham's Park, this SNAPSHOT provides a glimpse, as entertaining as it is painstaking, upon the burdens consuming our post-modern millennial generation.

Could be plugged as a bloke's equivalent of Fielding's Bridget Jones' Diary, the unspoken voice of the overlooked achiever facing less clear-cut yet equally fierce modern pressures resonations. The lack of fulfillment is explored through a sample of a persona forced to live through superficial and instant gratification. This is as the fallacy of the myth they were fed of being able to do anything provided that they work for it becomes increasingly exposed.

The challenges of living through an ambiguously fragile male identity are explored through a protagonist as sympathetic as he is flawed. Then throw a burning potential love into the mix...

Snapshot