Andrew Blackman
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An interesting premise: the book starts with a woman in hospital talking to her newborn baby girl. She starts to tell the story of her life, beginning with her own birth in St Thomas’s Hospital in 1965 and going right up to the present day.
“I’ll tell you my story. Our story. Because there’s [...]
The opening image of Ashes is a powerful one – a group of kids trying to stone a cat to death. The reason? “Something to do”.
The tone is set for the rest of the novel. Bleakness, lack of hope, pointless violence, misdirected anger, innocent victims. The setting is Meadow Well council estate in [...]
OK, I haven’t done any self-promotion on here for a while, so here goes:
BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK!
Thank you.
The reason for this outburst is that my publisher is running a special promotion today – if you buy On the Holloway Road through their website, you get entered [...]
It’s past four in the morning and I can’t sleep. Haven’t slept all night. I tried reading for a while, but that didn’t work – I couldn’t focus for more than a few seconds at a time. All that I have been able to do is lie in bed for five hours with my eyes [...]
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