Born and bred in North Yorkshire I was brought up by my great grandmother and my grandfather. Having left school with poor GSE results and only one O'level, in English, I found myself working in a factory, only gaining a business diploma and secretarial skills when the factory closed down. Many years later I worked for a security company where I met my partner and we have two, now adult, children as a result. During the time my children were growing up I gained a degree in English lit in the hope that it would help me to get published. It didn't. With a rather dark childhood, losses and disappointment behind me I can only draw on the emotions born from it all and write my heart out, and my writing is good.
Imagine taking exhausted, bedraggled people and listening to an account of their journey while, at the same time, trying desperately not to have your heart broken by it, while you write it down. That is the job of the host, the person who now lives in an amazing place, bequeathed to her by a higher power, where anyone can be guided to, if they are the good type, that is. For Solomon it would be a place where no nuke aftermath could reach him and his group. For Poppy it would be a place where she could rid herself of the kid. For the aging Bertie, ideally she, and her equally aging St Bernard, would be out of range of anymore chemical dusting. Theo would be around people his own age, and not so fearful of everything, and his mum would have friends again. Of course, the story of the host, the most important story, the story of her fight against the government and how she founded Elysium Fields, where some of those people are lucky enough to find themselves, is also written in The Book of Us. However, a further tale is told within the stories of the others and one has to wonder who, after their encounter with the tattooed man, is still alive to tell their version of it.
Título : The Book of Us
EAN : 9798224825974
Editorial : DJ Jarvie
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