When the Door Closed, It Was Dark is written by Alison Moore who lives near Leicester which is where I am. It is an intriguing story with a particularly sinister end.Tina has travelled from Leicester to a foreign country to work as an Au-pair for a family she knows nothing about. Alison Moore explores the feeling of powerlessness when we are placed into unfamiliar situations and cultures, I was gripped!
Black Country is written by Joel Lane who has always lived in Birmingham which was also where I was born and where I grew up. In Black Country the central character is a police officer returning to his home town in order to investigate a series of incidents with children behaving in a violent manner. Again this chapbook builds up to quite a shocking end that certainly left me with many questions.
I apologise for not giving a lot of detail but as they are short pieces of writing it would be too easy to give it all away. I do not usually enjoy short stories but I have to say that I thought that these two were excellent, the writers made use of every word and you could not help but be drawn into the worlds they were describing.
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5 comments:
Oooooh I have these and will be reading them when I get a chance over the weekend!
These sound really interesting, Dot. I will be looking out for Nightjar Press publications in future.
Simon- I am not a big fan of short stories but I thought that the quality of writing was excellent.
Kim- They were really interesting, brilliant how the author managed to draw you straight in considering how short they were.
I just had to comment on this because I taught school in the Black Country - Cradley Heath in the early 90s. (They've actually recently closed the school...) My husband and I lived in Black Heath and used to take the train into Birmingham on Saturdays to hang around. *g*
Christie- I lived on the other side of Birmingham but it was interesting to read a book set in places that I knew of.
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