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Full of irony and with a wry, sometimes depreciating flavour, ‘Cauliflowers through the cat flap and other tales from a solitary lockdown’ is a transparent and honest fly on the wall biographical account of one woman’s lockdown experience. Not just any woman. A woman who is indeed, as her friends tell her, ‘excellent at putting words together.’
Though a thoroughly entertaining read, it’s a bit like being found with your nose in your favourite aunt’s diary -some parts feel decidedly voyeuristic- even as you snort out loud in mirth!
With a unique delivery in which she builds fellow feeling and reduces her readers to chortles of a politically incorrect nature in equal measure, Cassandra Campbell-Kemp‘s get-on-with-it attitude in the face of adversity is truly inspiring; as is her ability to laugh at her own choices, actions and motivations.
Practical considerations -some a little over the top, such as the ‘spare room larder’, or the ‘portable loo and accompanying tent for solitary trips out’- are interspersed with vulnerable and tender moments which represent the serious business of actually surviving the pandemic as a person of low mobility with excessive pain, begging us all to self-reflect on whether we were (or still are!) truly there for our fellow man.
Despite being a book of personal experience, Campbell-Kemp’s wonderfully delightful metaphoric imagery stops the reader in their tracks to ingest great gulps of ‘country-flavoured air’ and watch clouds ‘scuttling across the fields’ as if out on their own illegal lock-down jaunt, creating pauses of joy and still amongst the frantic business of doing nothing.
Full of amusing mental meanderings, ‘Cauliflowers through the cat-flap and other tales of a solitary lockdown’ will bring your own memories and experiences of the pandemic flooding back as a shared but separate experience. It is highly recommended!
In her charming follow up to ‘A Globe Adventure’, Theresa Lynn offers her new tale ‘Beyond the Clouds-A Space Adventure’. In her now familiar blend of entertaining and educational literature, Lynn takes us far from Earth, in a wonderful exploration of the Universe.
Happenstance, serendipity and luck dominate as the lives of characters crash against one another like pinballs in Tom Evans’ All Is Not Well. A novel that perfectly captures the unscripted events and coincidences of real life, where you can do your utmost best, and it’s never quite good enough.
Never before has the voice of social commentary in literature sung higher. Freedom of speech has brought with it a cacophony of loudly spoken, written and sometimes harshly promoted opinion and judgement.
Possibly the trickiest of all writing genres, the thriller comes with high expectations, which are hard to fulfil. So what do we expect from a thriller, and why do we enjoy reading them so much?
The popularity of Crime Fiction might wax and wane but at the end of the day, it still remains one of the most popular genres.
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