Bookmuse says Zappa’s Mam’s a Slapper is sad, uplifting, shocking, funny, hopeful and frustrating
I think this, from JJ Marsh, is the most warming review I’ve ever received.
You can read more about the book here.
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Listen to the beginning of Sharon Wright: Butterfly
You can listen to the opening of Chapter 1 of Sharon Wright: Butterfly by clicking on the link above. This is the beginning of what will become an audio version of the book, but it should also help those who …
A memoir you can believe
The problem with memoirs by politicians and diplomats is that they are written by politicians and diplomats – people who throughout their professional lives have exercised such selectivity and economy with the truth that when you pick up the book …
Interview for the American University in Amman
A student at the American University in Amman asked if she could interview me as part of her course work. Of course I said yes – young women in the Middle East need all the help they can get (Etihad …
Let’s hear it for the Paddies
My relationship with Ireland is not one of undiluted love. When I visited Macroom, the Cork town from which my ancestors left for England in the 1860s, my reaction was, ”Yes. Well. I understand why they left and I’m glad …
“Emotions stay the same.” Not according to the vicar of Morebath
I read today in one of the historical novelists’ Facebook groups I belong to that the one constant when we write is how people felt in the (sometimes distant) past. We have to research the food they ate, the clothes …
Offcuts (5)
This is one of those passages (see Offcuts and Offcuts (2) (3) and (4)) that didn’t make it into the finished, published book but that I think had some value – or, at least, some interest. This one was …
The mess that is a writer’s mind
Where does stuff come from? I mean, the stuff we write. I’ve written elsewhere about my puzzlement when I saw the first line of Zappa’s Mam’s a Slapper; what raised the question this time was a memory from sixty …
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent
I almost abandoned this book right at the start, because at the very beginning of the book a man hits his wife and then beats her into a coma. It didn’t take the beating to make me want to turn …
A new review for Zappa’s Mam’s a Slapper
I did enjoy reading this :-). And I understand her reservations about the blurb.
on April 13, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition
Billy’s voice is incredibly strong and pulls the