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The Remaking of Myles

by David Rosenbaum
A man who has spent his whole life not looking back finds the past waiting for him at the ferry wharf.
THE DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to children of Holocaust survivors and the vicarious trauma that they experience throughout their lives.

THE AUTHOR

Dr David Rosenbaum

A career spent studying how people learn and change, and a first novel that asks the same question of one man.
David is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. The Remaking of Myles is his debut, written over two years alongside his academic work. He is currently writing the sequel.
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MEET MYLES BEFORE EVERYTHING CHANGES
Successful, driven and seemingly in control, Myles has built the life he thought he wanted. But beneath the surface, something is beginning to unravel.
Start with Chapter One and discover where his remaking begins.
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The Book
“He’s worried that something’s happening to him, but he doesn’t know what.”
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Discover The Remaking of Myles in Bookshops

The Remaking of Myles is now available at selected Sydney bookshops. Explore the latest in-store highlights and find your next great read.

Abbey’s Bookshop

Sydney CBD
AVAILABLE IN STORE
Explore the bookshop announcement photos

The Burns Bay Bookery

Lane Cove, Sydney
AVAILABLE IN STORE
See David’s bookshop visit and announcement

Abbey’s Bookshop

Sydney CBD
AVAILABLE IN STORE
Explore the bookshop announcement photos

The Burns Bay Bookery

Lane Cove, Sydney
AVAILABLE IN STORE
See David’s bookshop visit and announcement
Myles is a investment banker at the height of his career and the end of his marriage. He catches the same ferry every morning and reads client files the whole way across, never once looking at the harbour.
Then an old fisherman on the wharf raises his voice, and something gives way. Myles’s heart races, his vision blurs, and his dead father’s face rises up in front of him.
What follows is a year of coming apart. A mother’s death. A sealed envelope holding her testimony. A sister carrying a disclosure she has never been able to say out loud. Myles has to reckon with a history nobody told him and which he has been carrying the whole time regardless.
A novel about inherited grief, the cost of a life built on never stopping, and how much of a person can be dismantled before what remains is finally their own.
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Thirty-eight chapters,
one year of a life.

A few of them, in the order they arrive.

01 The Morning Tensions That Feed His Routines

03 The Wakeup Call That Was

08 An Agonising Loss

09 The Secret Horror

13 Identity

15 Rachel’s Rage

22 Three Threshold Days

29 Redemption?

35 The Moat is Now Empty

38 Eyeing Off the Future by Reflecting on the Past

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Where Myles goes next.

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Reviews

The story begins with Myles deeply absorbed in his career, but before long, his professional world, marriage, health, and family life all begin to unravel at the same time. This creates a constant feeling that something else is about to happen.

I particularly enjoyed the workplace storyline. Myles is a successful investment banking executive who is accustomed to being in control, making decisions, and expecting others to follow them. His clashes with colleagues reveal a lot about his personality, while the uncertainty surrounding the bank introduces…Read More

Mimeso

The Remaking of Myles is a story about a man who has spent years building his life around work, only to realise that the life he built may no longer fit him. Myles’s problems do not come one at a time. His health, marriage, family, career and grief all begin to affect each other, making his situation feel real.

The part that got me thinking was his discovery about his mother. He is not only dealing with her death, but also with a painful part of her past that changes the way he sees his parents and himself. His decision about whether to share what he has learned with Alan and Rachel adds another layer to his grief….Read More

Book Addict

The Remaking of Myles is a deeply personal story about what happens when a person is forced to confront the parts of himself he has spent years avoiding. What I found most compelling was Myles’s gradual transformation. At the beginning, he is almost completely defined by his career. His work comes first, while his marriage, health, family, and even his own emotional wellbeing are pushed aside. Yet as one crisis after another unfolds, that carefully constructed life begins to fall apart.

The discovery of his mother’s hidden past adds another emotional layer to the story…Read More

Bookreviews by Cynthia

A profound, beautifully written exploration of inheritance and identity. Myles Niemann has spent decades carrying the weight of his parents’ Holocaust survival, desperate to be seen as his own person. When his mother dies, everything unravels, his marriage, his career, and a devastating truth hidden from him. His relationship with Aura, a gallery curator who refuses easy answers, pushes him toward self-discovery. The author handles intergenerational trauma with extraordinary sensitivity, asking hard questions without offering tidy resolutions. The prose is gorgeous, the pacing masterful, and Myles will stay with me for a long time. One of the best books I’ve read this year.

Mandy Luton

Having had the pleasure of working with this author in his previous career as a highly skilled and respected academic, a wonderful teacher and researcher, I was of course surprised when he mentioned some time ago that he was leaving this career to concentrate on fulltime writing of a novel. I was saddened to lose my co-researcher and academic partner. Well, having read his first foray into fiction with this terrific novel, I am thrilled that he made this decision, especially as he has brought into the exercise all his talents of observation, analysis, critical thinking, empathy and beautiful writing, to flesh out such an important… Read More

Professor Elizabeth More, AM, FAICD

Anything can change when the person who held your family’s deepest secrets is suddenly gone. In The Remaking of Myles by David Rosenbaum, Myles Niemann finds himself facing exactly that kind of loss. After his mother dies, his marriage and career begin to fall apart, but the hardest part is discovering a family secret that makes him question everything he thought he knew about himself. His struggle feels very human because he is not simply dealing with grief. He is trying to understand how much of his life has been shaped by a past he never personally experienced… Read More

Vishi Singla

The Remaking of Myles by David Rosenbaum follows Myles Niemann, a successful investment banking executive whose career has gradually consumed almost every part of his life. His marriage to Evelyn suffers because work always comes first, and when she finally leaves him, Myles is forced to confront how much he has neglected. A panic attack and serious health concerns, including diabetes and high blood pressure, make it impossible for him to continue ignoring the consequences of his lifestyle… Read More

Praise Reads

David’s writing style is very flowing. You just read without hesitation one chapter to the next. I found a couple of the female participants to be a one dimensional, Aura & Jemma were a little unbelievably perfect. I am looking forward to reading the next book to find out what happens to Myles.

Kathie Kain

Myles Niemann has lost his sense of direction. His five-year marriage is imploding; he is battling health issues, and the banking career that he’s put his heart and soul into is in jeopardy. Even more, his mother reveals a shocking secret on her deathbed that changes everything about how he views his identity as the son of Holocaust survivors. Between dealing with grief, he doesn’t know what to make of this revelation, and his siblings share the collective anguish, particularly his sister Rachel, who projects all her anger onto Myles… Read More

READER VIEWS

David Rosenbaum’s ‘The Remaking of Myles’ followed Myles Niemann as he trudged through life, never realizing he was only going through the motions until he was hit by a series of unfortunate events and was forced to confront the challenges staring him in the face. Will he overcome the challenges, or will he ignore them and let them fester like a bad rash?

Myles Niemann was on a downward spiral. Life was dealing him one bad hand after another, with no chance of taking a breather. Luckily, he got a free card, and with his family’s assistance, he is able to reset and make better choices… Read More

Genevieve.C.N

The Remaking of Myles” was an interesting read that stayed on my mind even after I finished it. I really enjoyed the way the story draws you into Myles’ journey and makes you think about change, identity, and the choices that shape a person. The writing feels thoughtful without being overly complicated, and there’s an emotional quality to the story that makes it easy to connect with. Overall, it’s a book I’d recommend to readers who enjoy character-driven stories with something meaningful beneath the surface

Bassey

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