Collision with the Shadow

'When I see a review that starts "X is a fine observer..." my mind numbs over. I see X at a desk staring out a window wrestling the chaos into order. Reality isn't like that more like lurching through corridors with a hand-held camera. An open mind in the grand sense is open to everything even its own uncertainties and wild imaginings with an ever-shifting focus and perspective crowds of thoughts jostling for space on the page to make their voices heard. This is more like Carolyn's world vigorous engaged life on the wing or on the run the life we lead follow negotiate or are just intrinsically...in. Raw chaos is unreadable so of course there is craft at work. This book is eminently readable busy intelligent and full of life. From haunted interiors doctor's surgeries and exercise classes the world of books music galleries film and theatres parks uncosy domestic scenes and distant past ever slipping out of reach...the familiar morphs into strangeness the bland into menace then back again the other way. Enjoy the ride.' - John Carey

John Carey