Hi folks,
I just received an email
from a European writer I much admire, JJ Toner, and he wanted me to see the
review he’d just written for Monday’s Meal for Amazon. Take a look.
Monday’s Meal review:
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Extraordinary!
An extraordinary
collection of stories by a master storyteller, each one a gem. What I
particularly love about this wonderful book is the way each story is presented
in a different narrative voice, each voice totally convincing and fully
developed. For the most part, the narrators are observers, some closer to the
action than others. It’s a marvellous storytelling technique. We have a child,
a couple of prisoners, an accomplice to a crazy crime, a desperate starving
mother, the client of a dancer, and one airhead young woman, to mention just a
few. The stories in this collection reminded me strongly of the work of
Flannery O’Connor – the same insights into life’s little tragedies, the same
precision of presentation. I like to think that O’Connor’s work could be
described as a string quartet. Edgerton’s is a brass band. A New Orleans jazz
band, playing at full volume! Grab a copy. 5 Stars.
JJ Toner, Author, The Gingerbread Spy and others
This is easily one of the best reviews I’ve ever
gotten. It means a lot when anyone gets what you’re trying to do with your writing
and when that person is a fellow writer, it means even more. Fellow writers are
just a tough room!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, JJ!
Blue skies,
Les
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