Is a wild, breathtaking ride made by flawed and disarticulated people through a cold and dysfunctional post-humanist world. In this barren milieu, and against all odds, a heart-warming and hopeful love story unfolds. Set in a relentless rainy Gothenburg, McIntyre has done an incredible job weaving together the thrilling plot and their stories of despair, deception, and redemption. So, get ready for an adventure filled with very human beings making erroneous decisions, unforeseen dire consequences and a love story that will make your heart skip a beat.

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Summer 2025, I am working on making an audio version of the book, listen to excerpts now.
July 2025 There is a storm coming
(acrylic on canvas)
Beforeness
Ia goes to a picture she had named, There is a Storm Coming. In the moments before the sea and the sky blend and swirl in a storm like in a Turner painting, they retreat from each other, like winding springs gathering force preparing to charge at each other. The sea was most beautiful and threatening then. She imagined that the sea changes density before a storm, it gets thicker, darker and shinier. The sea that is angry with the sky, does not reflect the shadowing gathering clouds and the sky charged with electricity has a purple tone. The picture depicts the perfect pregnant moment, Ia thinks, that moment of charged calmness before the storm. It is one of her favourites and it made her feel sad. It is a painting of the condition of beforeness. It is a condition that is almost impossible to recognise until it is too late and until afterwards.

Kevin McIntyre is an Irish-born writer, artist, and teacher who lives and works in Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden. He is interested in themes of displacement, perception, power, and memory. He taps into a love of myths and a fondness for a great, entertaining yarn before a so-called rational truth. In his art, there is a sense of something behind the picture and in his writing, he explores and dismantles the modern-day myths and stories that limit our perception of what the world can be. ‘Buying into these myths is perhaps our biggest human error.'