A Novel Solution

 Book Information

Title: A Novel Solution

Author: Sue Clark

Release Date: 11th June 2024

Genre: Fiction

Page Count: 314

Publisher: SRL Publishing

Review: 

I was instantly drawn to this book when I read the blurb. It had everything that appealed to me. A coming of age / middle life crisis novel that I could relate to. 

I connected with Trish she was a real character that was just like me in so many ways. (Minus the no job and broken marriage) but the struggle to want to do more is something that so many people can relate to. 

The story is written in an interesting style and although it took me a while to get into the dual narrative it did find it an interesting twist. 

This was a good relaxed read that didn’t feel hard work and would be a welcome holiday companion. 

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Blurb: 

It's a bit tricky to find. Just down the lane from the old ochre pit.'

 

With these words, Trish, badly bruised by life, is catapulted into the world of celebrity author, Amanda Turner.

 

Her marriage on the rocks, no job, and at odds with her teenage daughters, Trish vows to reinvent herself. 'Like Madonna,' she tells her teens. 'Only as a writer.'

 

Naively, she pins her hopes on arrogant Amanda to nurture her and weekly classes begin at Amanda's gloomy house in the woods. Trish takes an instant dislike to Amanda's strapping young handyman, Pavel. Her suspicions grow, as an air of foreboding - as well as a nasty smell - hang over the house.

 

When Amanda vanishes, it's left to Trish to mount a rescue. Is she woman enough for the job? Will she ever write that bestseller?

Author Information

In a varied writing career, Sue Clark has penned BBC Radio and TV comedy scripts for the likes of David Jason, Lenny Henry, and Tracey Ullman, as well as contributing to newspapers, magazines, trade journals, and guidebooks, as a journalist, copywriter, PR, and editor.

But she had never done what she had always longed to do: write comic fiction.

That is, until she was able to give up the old nine-to-five, take a creative writing course with Oxford University, join a writing group and – at last! – unshackle her imagination and let her love for comedy roam free.

The result, her debut comic novel, Note to Boy, (‘She wants her celebrity life back. He just wants a life.’) was published in 2020, gaining a Pencraft award. Her second, A Novel Solution, out now, is published through SRL.

Sue Clark believes no story, no matter how tragic, isn’t enhanced by an injection of comedy. And likewise, no story, no matter how comic, isn’t enriched by an injection of pathos. Her aim: to give the reader that winning combination of laughter, laced with a few tears; heart and humour.

Sue lives with her forbearing husband, her grown-up children, and grand-daughter near – but not too near, in the sort of apparently sleepy Oxfordshire market town that inspires deadly dramas like Midsomer Murders.

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