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 Lazy Eye - Donna Daley-Clarke
 Lazy Eye - Donna Daley-Clarke ... 2006-07-03 by Pocket BooksNewest Review: ... up going to prison nine years ago. He turns her away but can't help thinking about her offer, and the story she wants him to ... more ... tell.
I went on a creative writing course in 2007 and this author was one of the instructors, and I decided that I must read her work. This story is told in three sections, the first and third from the point of view of Geoffhurst, owner of the lazy eye of the title, whose understanding of devastating events in the family life eight years ago is very different from that of the second narrator, his aunt Harriet, his mother's twin. They are both sympathetic characters with distinct voices and the story builds up really ...more |
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Lazy Eye - Donna Daley-Clarke: Don't be lazy and miss this (groan) (319 words)
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(This review is expanded from one I wrote for my blog) Geoffhurst Johnson, named for the footballer, aged nineteen, is as comfortable in his life he can be, with his own flat and regular Chinese takeaway for dinner. He is avoiding the past successfully until a journalist turns up at his flat, offering to pay him if he digs that past up and tells her how his father ended up going to prison nine years ago. He turns her away but can't help thinking about her offer, and the story she wants him to tell. I went on a creative writing course in 2007 and this author was one of the instructors, and I decided that I must read her work. This story is told in ... Read the complete review
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