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Sports and Social
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It’s not what you think, it rarely is, so flick the remains of your rubbish cigarette down the drain and don’t pay too much attention to the rumours. Things have been going missing from the bedroom of the woman with the purple eye shadow. Stewart tries to pull in the punters at the ailing nightclub by installing a car park diorama of gorillas and meerkats. Meanwhile, Yvonne gets a new job and nobody knows what’s happened to Daz. At Jonnie Rabbett’s shooting club, Barbara ‘Bunny’ Rabbett dispenses pork pies and sage advice, “It’ll be right, love.” Vincent smokes cigarettes, smells of paint and finally gets to the bottom of what exactly happened to Dame Judy. He must ring Kirsten and let her know! Paul’s life flashes before him as he drives around town in his aromatic van, “I’m here for the chickens!” he shouts. Sports and Social is a collection of short stories about the remarkable everyday things that happen when remarkable everyday people get together.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Bluemoose Books Ltd (28 Sept. 2023) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 130 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 191569311X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1915693112 |
| Dimensions | 19.8 x 1.2 x 12.8 cm |
by BeckyBendyLegs
They say don’t judge a book by its cover. I’m not sure that’s fair. We do just that all the time. I don’t know what intrigued me about this book. I saw it and it just looked like the sort of book I knew I’d love. I was right. I did love it.
If you find people fascinating, if you love watching them go about their daily lives, if you appreciate the extraordinary in the ordinary, then this book is for you. On one level, it is a very simple tale: it tells the stories of a number of lives, captured in a series of moments. However, on another level it is complex: multi-layered and full of colour and shape and emotion. In this book, we are welcomed into people’s lives for fleeting moments, but in those moments we absorb so much. By adding the objects of those people, the place (where they live, work or just move around) and the time (the smells too) to the narrative, Kevin adds vivid colour to what might normally seem so grey. We are the sum of the parts we touch and the impressions we leave. That’s how this book made me feel.
In summary, it is a book of contradictions. But then life is like that. It is dark and light, funny and tragic, it skips the surface and delves deep. Life is all those things. Brilliant. This book will stay with me for a long while.