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""...A rewarding page-turner..."" --Foreword Clarion Reviews ""...A truly original cast of characters..."" --Blue Ink Reviews ""...Sensitive...Engaging...Grounded exploration of recovery, resentment, and redemption..."" --BookLife Reviews Ollie Buckmeyer is funny, popular, and lives an idyllic life with his family on one of the last cattle ranches in Southern California. But when he suffers a devastating brain injury, his wonderful world is shattered. Even though he still looks like the same old Ollie, his family mourns as if he had died, his friends don't know him, and the girl he loves is gone. Everything that matters is taken from him...but something is also given: Ollie has an amazing new talent that might be powerful enough to rebuild his life. Ollie Come Free is a sweeping family saga that explores love, betrayal, and the resilience of the human spirit. Plots and subplots abound-including a buried treasure that has confounded fortune hunters for 120 years-and are brought to life by a full cast of complex and fascinating characters. As Foreword Clarion says in their five star review, ""Ollie Come Free is a surprising and rewarding page-turner.""

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Classified as a young adult book but perfect for all, Ollie Come Free is a surprising, rewarding page-turner. At its core, it is a novel about family, love, and the resilience of the human spirit. Its pacing and storytelling is well honed, and its deep dive into savant research, coupled with a search for buried treasure, are natural parts of its sweeping story. --Foreword Clarion Reviews Patrick has developed a truly original cast of characters, clearly elucidating their complex relationships, and creating an intriguing juxtaposition between Cody, a once-promising baseball player, and Ollie, who against all odds, flourishes...Patrick so skillfully sustains the dramatic tension that...they'll be sitting at the edge of their seats, turning pages. --Blue Ink Reviews A cattle ranching family faces the reverberations of trauma in Patrick's sensitive and engaging novel, a grounded exploration of recovery, resentment, and redemption...Readers interested in a realistic depiction of artistic savant experiences will find resonance in this atypical coming-of-age centered on a protagonist whose future is tied to a past that always calls him home. --BookLife Reviews

"""Classified as a young adult book but perfect for all, Ollie Come Free is a surprising, rewarding page-turner. At its core, it is a novel about family, love, and the resilience of the human spirit. Its pacing and storytelling is well honed, and its deep dive into savant research, coupled with a search for buried treasure, are natural parts of its sweeping story."" --Foreword Clarion Reviews ""Patrick has developed a truly original cast of characters, clearly elucidating their complex relationships, and creating an intriguing juxtaposition between Cody, a once-promising baseball player, and Ollie, who against all odds, flourishes...Patrick so skillfully sustains the dramatic tension that...they'll be sitting at the edge of their seats, turning pages."" --Blue Ink Reviews ""A cattle ranching family faces the reverberations of trauma in Patrick's sensitive and engaging novel, a grounded exploration of recovery, resentment, and redemption...Readers interested in a realistic depiction of artistic savant experiences will find resonance in this atypical coming-of-age centered on a protagonist whose future is tied to a past that always calls him home."" --BookLife Reviews"

""Classified as a young adult book but perfect for all, Ollie Come Free is a surprising, rewarding page-turner. At its core, it is a novel about family, love, and the resilience of the human spirit. Its pacing and storytelling is well honed, and its deep dive into savant research, coupled with a search for buried treasure, are natural parts of its sweeping story."" --Foreword Clarion Reviews ""Patrick has developed a truly original cast of characters, clearly elucidating their complex relationships, and creating an intriguing juxtaposition between Cody, a once-promising baseball player, and Ollie, who against all odds, flourishes...Patrick so skillfully sustains the dramatic tension that...they'll be sitting at the edge of their seats, turning pages."" --Blue Ink Reviews ""A cattle ranching family faces the reverberations of trauma in Patrick's sensitive and engaging novel, a grounded exploration of recovery, resentment, and redemption...Readers interested in a realistic depiction of artistic savant experiences will find resonance in this atypical coming-of-age centered on a protagonist whose future is tied to a past that always calls him home."" --BookLife Reviews

Author Information

Tim Patrick learned at an early age about living on both sides of the tracks. His family scraped to pay the rent but he received his primary education at a private boarding school, the result of smooth talking parents and a generous scholarship. On visiting day Tim watched the parents of his schoolmates arrive in limousines and Lamborghinis. His parents arrived in a utility van that said ""Patrick's TV Repair"" on the sides. In ""Tea Cups & Tiger Claws,"" his first novel, Patrick continues with this childhood theme as he introduces forbidden mountaintop palaces and the characters who try to sneak into them. It's a family saga that spans three generations and takes you on a wild ride from one side of the tracks to the other. In ""Death of Movie Star,"" the author's second novel, he takes you backstage to meet the types of film stars that the whole world loves and hates-sometimes simultaneously. There are the ambitious divas, the wisecracking sidekicks, and the really frightening ones who just might be playing themselves. In ""Ollie Come Free,"" Patrick unites his fondness for the American family saga with the fascinating phenomenon of acquired savantism, where a person can get bonked on the head and wake up with a new and amazing talent...and the brain damage that always accompanies it. Tim is a graduate of UCLA. He and his wife live in California and are the parents of two grown children. In his spare time, he enjoys aviation, bicycling, and experimenting in the kitchen.

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