My Review of #ThreethingsaboutElsie by @JoannaCannon
My Review: Firstly I must confess I’ve been having a bit of a struggle recently to concentrate on my reading and find books which grab and hold my attention well enough to ensure I can’t put them down. Three things about Elsie has been the exception to the rule and has renewed my faith in my ability to devour and drown in and adore a book. It also quite broke my heart – Joanna Cannon how could you put me through this? By the end I was sobbing those great big ugly gut wrenching Waah’s that you just can’t do quietly – Thank goodness I was reading it in bed and not on the bus! Like her debut novel “The Trouble with goats and sheep” which I also read and loved, this author peoples her writing with wonderful characters to believe in and peppers it with wry observations and astoundingly astute and beautiful prose. We are introduced to the narrator Florence as she lies prone on the floor of her sheltered accommodation waiting for someone to find her following a fall. She spends her...