The Hurtle of Hell

`A sparkling mixture of domestic and celestial comedy. A conflicted gay man meets his bungling creator in an ingenious take on It's A Wonderful Life' - Michael Arditti; `Simon Edge has given us a creator for our times, hilariously at the mercy of forces beyond even his control' - Tony Peake; `Funny, perceptive, insightful'- Abi Silver

A new comedy from the author of The Hopkins ConundrumWhen gay, pleasure-seeking Stefano Cartwright is almost killed by a wave while at the beach, his journey up a tunnel of light convinces him that God exists after all, and he may need to change his ways if he is not to end up in hell. When God happens to look down his celestial telescope and see Stefano, he is obliged to pay unprecedented attention to an obscure planet in a distant galaxy, and ends up on the greatest adventure of his multi-eon existence. The Hurtle of Hell combines a tender, human story of rejection and reconnection with an utterly original and often very funny theological thought-experiment, in an entrancing fable that is both mischievous and big-hearted.