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Our Picnics in the Sun
bookshelves: cover-love, autumn-2013, published-2013, net-galley, e-book, bucolic-or-pastoral, exmoor, the-wrong-pyjamas, britain-scotland, britain-england, devon, families, lifestyles-deathstyles, lit-richer, mental-health, midlife-crisis, ouch, psychology
Read from November 21 to 24, 2013
NetGalley: Random House Publishing Group - Bantam Dell/Delacorte Press
From the description: late one evening, two men arrive needing a room for the night—and set off a chain of events that uncovers the relics of old tragedies. New wounds are cut deep, betrayals and cruelties intermix with tenderness and love.
Opening quote:
Opening: Howard Morgan was on the floor of the old pigshed when in transition from Cobra to Locust when a blood vessel burst in his head.
So the backstory is that artistic new-ager Howard yearned to go back to the land and consequently settled in a small-holding on Exmoor and deborahstonetbridge@yahoo.com manages the bed and breakfast, and all the practical side of things. The son, Adam, is an elusive character travelling here and there but never quite finding the time to come visit parents.
This is a tough read and certainly now one that will appeal to many who have not come smack-bang up against some of the issues raised within this story. See how others have shelved this as mystery and/or thriller, that is not the case at all, rather this is the social trauma of misguided believers in nothing but the natural. In fact the GoodRead's blurb box is totally inaccurate.
A back to the earth scenario and the dysfunction that can result. It is not a story that I enjoyed yet I do believe this has highlighted some modern day difficulties which are normally shied away from.
hermianopia: Loss of vision in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes.
M.A.S.K. Razorback
From the description: late one evening, two men arrive needing a room for the night—and set off a chain of events that uncovers the relics of old tragedies. New wounds are cut deep, betrayals and cruelties intermix with tenderness and love.
Opening quote:
Nor ask what doubtful act allows'A Summer Night' W H Auden
Our freedom in this English house,
Our picnics in the sun.
Opening: Howard Morgan was on the floor of the old pigshed when in transition from Cobra to Locust when a blood vessel burst in his head.
So the backstory is that artistic new-ager Howard yearned to go back to the land and consequently settled in a small-holding on Exmoor and deborahstonetbridge@yahoo.com manages the bed and breakfast, and all the practical side of things. The son, Adam, is an elusive character travelling here and there but never quite finding the time to come visit parents.
This is a tough read and certainly now one that will appeal to many who have not come smack-bang up against some of the issues raised within this story. See how others have shelved this as mystery and/or thriller, that is not the case at all, rather this is the social trauma of misguided believers in nothing but the natural. In fact the GoodRead's blurb box is totally inaccurate.
A back to the earth scenario and the dysfunction that can result. It is not a story that I enjoyed yet I do believe this has highlighted some modern day difficulties which are normally shied away from.
hermianopia: Loss of vision in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes.
M.A.S.K. Razorback
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