Love and Other Near Death Experiences
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Hmmm... What can I say about LAONDE without giving too much away (not that it's remotely a whodunit or a mystery puzzle or some such 'See if you can guess' nonsense - not at all: but why destroy the gentle unfolding of a novel by telling you half the of what will unfold before you start?) Well, it's a comedy (obviously). It is not a 'black comedy' - no, no, no. There are some dark bits in it, yes, but it is not a black comedy: it's a funny comedy. It contains lots of fevered existential searching, a seam of romance, more swearing than you can possibly imagine, some transgressional sex, and a far greater number of references to various kinds of fruit than I at all imagined would be the case when I originally sat down to write it.
I think that's all I'll say. Yes. Look, if you're going to read it, then it's best if you don't already know half of what's going to happen before you even open the damn cover. And, if you're not going to read it, then what the hell do you care anyway?
If you look at review quotes about books to make your purchasing decisions then, let's be honest, you have the mind of Derek Bentley - and we all know how that ended up, eh? But, wearily, I've slapped up the few I've thus far been sent HERE. If your madness extends even further - so you're irresistably drawn to wanting know more about the novel - you can hear me mouthing off in a hotel bar (and even read an extract from LAONDE, I think) HERE.As always, I urge you to buy it from a proper bookshop. But, if you genuinely can't bear the prospect of physical exposure to all that literature, then you can go to Amazon by clicking on your preferred edition, above.