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The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac by Mark Blake.
Certainly not a fan of the group in any way, but what a story.
Penguin press release on the final part of Boyle?s quadrology, Air will be available from 1 May - keep The Red Flag flying here etc - :
?From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son.
Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it?s an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world to meet a woman who isn?t expecting them.
Unsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth has made him the man he is, but now threatens to widen the growing fissures between him and his only child. This trip could bind them closer together, or tear them further apart.
In this penetrating examination of action and consequence, fault and attribution, acceptance and resolution, John Boyne gives us a redemptive story of a father and a son on a moving journey to mend their troubled lives.?
I?ll be straight into it as soon as I?ve completed listening to Barry Hines?s ?The Gamekeeper?, finished both ?John and Paul? and ?How To Build A Boat? on e-book, and David Hepworth?s ?A Fabulous Creation? and the ACL copy of Anthony Quinn?s latest behemoth ?The Mouthless Dead? both in Proper Mannies? paper format.
Retirement - sitting on yer erse reading books waiting to die.
The third part - Fire - is another one of Boyle?s tales that makes you wonder where he gets the inspiration, and you?ll marvel at the depth of his research. There?s a subtle connection with Water which I think you?ve read. The boy?s a genius.
Been meaning to hunt out John and Paul. Well prompted.
Light reading has been Palin’s Monty Python Diaries, where the penny just dropped that Miriam Stoppard was married to Tom.
Can’t believe I never twigged that afore![]()
My copy of John and Paul is a readable file in a format sent by My Man Who Knows About These Things. In the middle of the night, assuming that I was nearing the end of it, I tapped on the page only for it to reveal that I was on page 342 of 643. Blimey and crikey.
It is beautifully done, and the author was a very insightful guest on the Word podcast a few weeks ago.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7pd...RKueXpMIn_24uw
SORT OOT THE FROCKING PUNCTUATION SIBO YOU USELESS TROLLOP
I finished it last week. It was like climbing Lochnagar - a long, strength-sapping endeavour, but worth it for the view, the glow of satisfaction st the well-being reward, and the pints in the Coilacriech afterwards.
Some of the most interesting passages were in the post-Klein era as they communicated intermittently. The description of Paul taking part in a televised Desert Island Discs - with Roy Plomley, no less - had me scarpering into the lift to get away from the sudden overpowering effect on my eyes of the ingins in the kitchen drawer.