This is a book we put together for our very own Debz
Hobbs-Wyatt. All of the stories have been published before or have own competitions
and now she has the rights back. They only needed the lightest of edits. So working
with this book was different.
Debz anyway is an editor herself, but even so, it’s hard to
edit your own work. Besides this work had already passed several gatekeepers.
So, there was just a light copy edit and proof-read. I wasn’t involved in proof-reading
so this delightful volume is waiting in my to be read pile. I’m familiar with some
of the stories but not all of them. I’m looking forward to it.
Debz provided her own ideas for the cover and this involved a
photo of her grandmother. My goodness, Debz doesn’t half look like her.
Meet
a mixture of beguiling narrators, from seven-year-old Leonardo Renoir Hope
trying to change the past so his dad doesn’t die, and George and his
carrot-growing friends on an east London allotment waiting for the world to
end, to Amy Fisher who realises that her husband, after his sudden death, is
not who she thinks he is… but who is the other Mrs Fisher? This one adds a
touch of medical horror to the mix.
All
of the stories are about ordinary people when extraordinary things happen to
them.
As
usual we need reviews.
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