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Born Free - Laura Hird

Description: ISBN 1841950483 / Author: Laura Hird / Genre: Fiction / A novel capturing a snap-shot of a dysfunctional Edinburgh-based family.

Newest Review: ... immediately picked up on the other by someone else. It is quite seamless and cleverly executed. Initially the approach may ... more

... be viewed as an unsure author maintaining control of time and characters, but the overall confidence of the book would most definitely suggest otherwise. An aspect that is guaranteed dispute free is Hird's ability with dialogue. She makes continuous use of dual interactions, indeed this is the mainframe for the telling of her story. With a less skilled author though this approach could quite easily become monotonous, but Hird quite believably speaks as a 15 year old girl in a 15 year old girl's confusing w...more

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Born Free - Laura Hird: "Under Attack" (642 words)
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This debut novel announces Laura Hird (author) with an audible WALLOP! Taking a snapshot into the lives of a dysfunctional family of four north of the border and covering issues of alcoholism, teenage angst, mid-life crises and a marriage gone bad, Born Free is refreshingly blunt and real! Vic and Angie's marriage has been rocky since her days of regularly jumping into the canal - once the Vodka had kicked-in. A new flat was to say goodbye to the hard times and frightened neighbours and to be the blank canvas with which their two teenage children Joni and Jake could grow untarnished. But Angies's three years on the wagon come to an abrupt end turning ... Read the complete review

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