There's More to Life than Death by Anne Forrest

 

Behind the death of a person, a building or a place, life goes on.

Here is a strong sense of many places: rural North Wales, a quarry, the woods, a Welsh Woollen Mill storeroom, the banks of the Atchafalaya River, a claustrophobic swampland shack, the Texas panhandle and more.  

 

And there are people. Quinn maybe protects two brothers, from their dead Mam’s sexual secrets. Febby plans her escape. Mostyn has to please his publisher and Mary Mc Allister still nurses the Infant Jesus years after her own baby died.

Anne Forrest paints colourful word pictures of these people and places in There’s More to Life than Death. 

 

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"An intriguing title for this collection of well-crafted stories, and at times the reader might be forgiven for wondering what more there is, and trying to side-step the conclusion that everything else on offer seems to be worse than death.

"There is certainly more to life than death here and these stories will leave the reader eager for more."

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I'm a Big Boy Now by Eamon O'Leary

 

Your passport to an Irish boyhood in a less frantic, more adventurous age, reliving a time of skinned knees and home-made go-karts, clean dirt, Saturday night baths, and the kind of sweets that’d nearly cost you your teeth. Back when it always seemed to snow at Christmas, the summers were long and golden, and the friendships were forever.

Eamon O’Leary gives us a glimpse of uncomplicated childhood in I’m a Big Boy Now.

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Sigrid is Unique by Lotta Lundh and Nils Melander

 

Sigrid is unique. Mom always  says that she is not like everyone else. Sigrid cannot help but wonder what it is that makes her unique. Is it the fact that she likes to play on her own?  Because she can get really, really mad? or is it her detailed drawings?  Or the fact that she likes it quiet?

Come  along, join Sigrid  when she explores what it really is that makes her unique. 

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A hugely positive book that brilliantly combines subtle humour alongside the everyday realities of living with Autism. The illustrations, which are brilliant btw, bring Sigrid to further life in a way that helps us to relate with her daily struggles coping in a world where neither she nor it fully understands the other. A must read for parents and children everywhere. It ought to be in every school library.

 

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Butterflies and other stories by Jenny Palmer

 

Imaginative, witty, topical stories with unexpected twists and turns.

The book portrays snippets of everyday life which contain a deeper meaning than is immediately apparent. There are stories about women who try to prove they are not invisible, people escaping from a cult, coincidental encounters with long lost friends, historical characters who reassert themselves into the present, scenarios which foreshadow what is to come, the danger of relying on other people’s philosophy rather than one’s own, alongside suggestions on how best to survive Christmas or deal with unwanted intruders.

In Butterflies and other stories, Jenny Palmer writes from the vantage point of her home in rural Lancashire. She reflects on the turbulent times in which we live, on how people cope in their everyday lives, whether it be living through lockdown, escaping from a cult, dealing with the ‘hostile environment,’ having a pre-payment meter installed, or preparing for an uncertain future. Maintaining a lightness of touch, the stories are imbued with a sense of the healing power of nature and an appreciation of its beauty.

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