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Medium Fiction

No, this blog is not about a new modestly priced genre for the  middle-aged, middle-gendered, middle-brow reader. This blog is about stories built around the figure of the professional medium. Because I’ve just read a cracking good one, and realised that it’s a subject I bump my nose on every few years. I don’t always like them, as you will see, but they often give me that little kick of electricity which means I never quite forget them.

Medium in All That Was LostThe Book that started this is All that Was Lost, by Alison May, published last Thursday.

The main character is, indeed, a professional medium. Very professional. One doesn’t entirely trust her but there is something oddly reassuring about her, though she clearly has some well-buried issues. She grows in stature throughout the book. Indeed, as in so many relationships, the reader alternately engages and retreats. I was 100% on her side by the end, though.

I found this a page-turner, intriguing and consistently engaging – and quite unlike anything else I have read this year. A refreshment to the jaded palate indeed. Continue reading

Day 6 of 12 Days of Christmas : 6 Geese a-Laying & Paul Gallico

Day 6 goose stamp 1977Day 6 and that obsessive True Love is back in the poultry groove again. At least this time they are laying, so the eggs can be sold.

Though goose eggs are large and very rich and not to everyone’s taste. Possibly not an easy sell. Or even give away.

And they’re very noisy, geese. Better than guard dogs some people say. And they can be aggressive.

Sigh. Continue reading