A Boy in Trouble
Robert Carey, aged eight
Part 2 of a short story series about the young Robert Carey - and in case you don't already have it, you can get part 1 as well, A Pest of a Boy.
Robert Carey, aged eight
Part 2 of a short story series about the young Robert Carey - and in case you don't already have it, you can get part 1 as well, A Pest of a Boy.
Five stars are too few for this outstanding modern novel. This is the best novel I've read in a long time and I wholeheartedly recommend it.
Nurse Anna cares for those dying at home, then clears up after her teenage boys and writer husband. Until the nameless tattooed man arrives to help care for his dying former lover. When Anna takes Tattoo to her Taekwando class, he is startled to find she's the black-belt Master.
Over the few weeks of this book Anna analyses her life, why she's allowed herself to be the family dogsbody. When the enigmatic tattooed man's secret is revealed, her life gets even more complicated.
It's a love story, a psychology class, an insightful study of relationships - and I couldn't put it down til I'd finished it. Please, Ms Finney, could we have another.
has been writing for longer than she cares to admit and has been a traditionally published author since she was 18. She won the David Higham Award for her first book and the top BBC Radio Drama award for her play “A Room Full of Mirrors”, wrote a column for a Fleet Street paper, edited a medical journal, sold advertising, opened and ran a coffee shop for a couple of years, went to Spain with her kids and more recently went to Hungary without them. She came back to the UK for Lockdown I and has had a lovely time writing books, short stories, articles and anything else that her faithful Interstellar Idea Bats bring.
She also writes the Sir Robert Carey series of historical novels under her pen name of P F Chisholm and is looking forward to finally publishing the tenth Carey novel – “A Taste of Witchcraft.”
FridayOctober 15, 2021
10:30 am
Rubicund Radical Bookshop & Cafe • 2-3 St George's Arcade. Church Street, TR11 3 DH Falmouth, UK.
For everybody who likes reading or writing books, especially in Falmouth and Penryn. Lots of writers, lots of books. Me.
SaturdayOctober 16, 2021
10:00 am
Beerwolf Books • Beerwolf Books, 3 Bell's Court, Falmouth TR11 3Az
A bookshop with a pub attached; a pub with a bookshop. What could be better? I'll be talking about Writers & Booze. Please come and interrupt.
SundayOctober 17, 2021
12:00 pm
Fish Factory Artspace • Commercial Road, Penryn TR10 8EG
Writers' Clinic - bring a few pages from a story you're stuck on and I'll try and unstick you. Get advice from a writer who's been at it for so long, she wrote her first two books on a typewriter.