Smoothly flowing through pockets of negativity, ever tugging on meandering lives on the edge of a swan dive. Engaging characters somehow bring an overall positive feel to this extract.
We begin with Jo, a barrister who travels up and down the country, rarely spending time with her family, as Christmas approaches she finds the dismal reverie of returning to a place she once knew as home, a partial stranger longing to be home in a truer sense. The lawyer bit was authentic, reflecting a podcast I heard about the hard realities of this challenging role, the nest of antisociality.
I was listening to another pod about an old chap who was the last of a 300 year line of Yorkshire butchers, the worn knuckles, the tired wearing down gears working against the positive drive to engage with customers and passers by. This book reflected this genuine atmosphere well, Jo’s parents performing the roles well, the chatty mother beguiling customers, the hard worn father in the back chopping up sides of beef, the event horizon drawing ever nearer to sucking in another high street retailer. I know nothing of being a farrier, but the terminology used by Tessa to sound realistic. Her suffrage was also unbearable at times, the way she hermitted herself away to avoid the kindness of strangers in regards to her illness. My favourite section was where she concertinaed down into a pile, her thought process of choosing to fall on the anvil or hot iron, sizzle ahhh. A great character who will challenge the reads emotions, maybe promote a tear for those who partake.
The set up of this extract is good and I can see where Jo and Tessa can join forces and help each other and there is a lot of opportunity for conflict and personal injury, should be a good read. I’m not going to enter this though, the last time I entered I didn’t win, despite a competition of one liners and blurb regurgitators, so don’t see the point. I would have read the whole book and written a nice review based on my own thoughts, perhaps including some random waffle about a couple of podcasts which I enjoyed. I’ll just write this well thought out overly long piece, which nobody will read and be gone instead.
We begin with Jo, a barrister who travels up and down the country, rarely spending time with her family, as Christmas approaches she finds the dismal reverie of returning to a place she once knew as home, a partial stranger longing to be home in a truer sense. The lawyer bit was authentic, reflecting a podcast I heard about the hard realities of this challenging role, the nest of antisociality.
I was listening to another pod about an old chap who was the last of a 300 year line of Yorkshire butchers, the worn knuckles, the tired wearing down gears working against the positive drive to engage with customers and passers by. This book reflected this genuine atmosphere well, Jo’s parents performing the roles well, the chatty mother beguiling customers, the hard worn father in the back chopping up sides of beef, the event horizon drawing ever nearer to sucking in another high street retailer. I know nothing of being a farrier, but the terminology used by Tessa to sound realistic. Her suffrage was also unbearable at times, the way she hermitted herself away to avoid the kindness of strangers in regards to her illness. My favourite section was where she concertinaed down into a pile, her thought process of choosing to fall on the anvil or hot iron, sizzle ahhh. A great character who will challenge the reads emotions, maybe promote a tear for those who partake.
The set up of this extract is good and I can see where Jo and Tessa can join forces and help each other and there is a lot of opportunity for conflict and personal injury, should be a good read. I’m not going to enter this though, the last time I entered I didn’t win, despite a competition of one liners and blurb regurgitators, so don’t see the point. I would have read the whole book and written a nice review based on my own thoughts, perhaps including some random waffle about a couple of podcasts which I enjoyed. I’ll just write this well thought out overly long piece, which nobody will read and be gone instead.